Re: error when starting X-Win

[Gmane User <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Gmane User wrote:
>> Martin Bartak wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> How to delete </tmp/.X11-unix/X0> automatically when closing
>>> X-session or,
>>> how to prevent its emergence when starting X-sesion or,
>>> how to make it re-writable by 'non-Administrator' user?
>>>
>>> I've got Cygwin 1.5.23-2 (full installation) on WinXP with two
>>> user accounts. I use 'startx' command to invoke X-Win
>>> with default parameters or options.
>>> When starting X-Win, a file named 'X0' is placed into /tmp/.X11-unix/
>>> and it probably locks the X-server for current user (?)
>>> This file persists after exiting from X-Win and also after exiting
>>> from Cygwin. No problem if I start Cygwin and X-Win again
>>> as the same user, but when I login as another user (different from
>>> Administrator) X-Win cannot be started unless the previous X0 file
>>> is deleted.
>> I have sshd installed, so I ssh into the account that owns /tmp/.X11
>> and remove it.  Better yet, I simply have the same account starting
>> Xwin all the time.  For example, if user1 is the Xwin account and I am
>> logged in as user2, I can ssh into user1 to start Xwin.  Or simply do
>> Start->run, then use the runas command to run startxwin.bat as user1
>> (full program path required).  The user2 login session hasn't been
>> interrupted; you just need to "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and then start
>> launching X applications.
> 
> The standard way this has been handled in the past is to set up a mount
> point for '/tmp/' to a unique location.  In a default Windows
> installation, the following should work (untested):
> 
> mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp
> 
> This keeps things unique for each user anyway.


That's quite cool.  I decorated it a bit to keep it all within my cygwin
file space.  Specifically, in my all-purpose ~/Temp directory:

	mkdir -p ~/Temp/tmp
	mount -b -u c:/cygwin/home/${USER}/Temp/tmp /tmp

Thanks!


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