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Re: AW: can't start xfree as user
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:36:00 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: AW: can't start xfree as user
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Rüdiger Bodack wrote:
> > Can anyone help out with this problem please? I have XFree86
> > running on
> > Windows 2K and it is fine for me when I'm logged in as Admin but if I
> > log in as a User it won't run. I have a feeling the answer is to set
> > owner of xinit to root but as I'm using cygwin I don't think this is
> > possible is it? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
>
> after A while I had enough with win2k rights and added my network user to
> the local administrator group. Now I am the boss on my computer. Not
> elegant, but works.
>
it should help to mount /tmp to a directory where you have the right to
create files.
eg. mount -b <your_profile>/temp /tmp
or mount -b c:/temp /tmp
bye
ago
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