X -broadcast

[Brett <brettlee at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

Have been using "X -broadcast" to connect to a XDM server on my network for 
months now.  However, when another user of cygwin tries, it doesn't work.  
I've tested it on a couple different XP machines, each with Cygwin installed 
for ALL USERS.

I can resolve this problem by removing the "/tmp/XWin.log" file manually.  It 
seems that this file is written by the last person to successfully start an X 
Window, and the permissions are 644.

Maybe if the file was written 664, or a different file was written for each 
$LOGNAME, this problem might go away.

Here is what I've come up with that works for me: a "startx" script to start X:

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# startx
rm -f /tmp/XWin.log

  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "File could not be deleted"
    exit
  fi

X -broadcast > /dev/null 2>&1 &
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I'd be grateful for thoughts on a better solution.