RE: XWin and multiple users

["Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>]

Hi

I started a thread on this a few months ago. Some mail-archive searching
would help you.

Unless you want to use Fast-User-Switching (FUS), the solution is to exit
XWin before you log out ( a good idea in any case), e.g. by double cliking
the X icon in your task bar. If you do need FUS, apparently you can try to
start different users on different screens (using the -screen option of
XWin). I've never tried that though.

Kris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Joel Salomon
> Sent: 23 May 2004 18:48
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XWin and multiple users
>
>
> On a windows XP machine with cygwin-x installed, if I can start the X
> server, then other windows users cannot. re-assigning ownership of
> /tmp/.X11-unix/ from chesky to jake allows jake to run X when he is logged
> in, but then I cannot.
>
> The error message implies that /tmp/.X11-unix/ should be owned by root,
> but there is no such user.
>
> I'll try to subscribe to or monitor the list, but please cc me
> when replying.
>
> Thanks,
> --Joel
>