RE: Can't launch X-windows from domain power user account

["Charli Li" <KBarticle889459 at aim dot com>]

Have you tried using startxwin.sh from the Cygwin command line?
---
What you said about the privileges, you mentioned /usr/tmp.  That is just a
temporary files dir.  Instead you want to make the cygwin install dir
accessible to all users, so you should:
* Right click on on cygwin folder, hit properties
* Security > Add
* Select Everything in the list and hit add
* Hit OK twice.  If any dialogs appear, just hit OK.

Charli

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Mister Fred Ma
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:22 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Fwd: Can't launch X-windows from domain power user account
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed Cygwin & Cygwin/X as an administrator; it is a local account
> on a Windows XP machine.  It runs fine when I'm logged on as
> administrator.  I doesn't work when I run startxwin.bat as a power
> user (a domain user accuont).  Cygwin was installed for all users, and
> everything else seems to work for all uasers..I get the following error:
>
>     A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
>     Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
>
>     Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>     Release: 6.8.2.0-4
>     Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>     XWin was started with the following comand-line:
>     /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
> I noticed that /tmp was owned by the administrator, so I made it
> read-write-executable by all.  This didn't help.  I've included
> /tmp/XWin.log below.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Fred
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     /tmp/XWin.log
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-4
>
> Contact:  cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 960
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html  for more
> information
> (==) FontPath set to
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr
> /X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11
> R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32
> bits per pixel
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height:
> 960 depth: 32
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB
> 8 d 24 bpp 32
> null screen fn ReparentWindow
> null screen fn RestackWindow
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
> InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
> InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to
> lack of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
> (--) 5 mouse buttons found
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
> winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
> winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
>  winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winInitClipboard ()
> winClipboardProc - Hello
> DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
> winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully
> opened the display.
>  winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully
> opened the display.
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully
> opened the display.
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped
> WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop.
> winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded.
>
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
>
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