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RE: XWin and multiple users
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: salomo3 at cooper dot edu
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:43:18 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: RE: XWin and multiple users
- References: <NEBBKLAEEMDJBCGCCAOGAEENDBAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Kris Thielemans wrote:
>
> 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.
The -screen option will not help. Use other display numbers instead:
user startup $DISPLAY file in /tmp
-----------------------------------------------------------
Alice XWin :0 $OPTIONS localhost:0.0 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
Bob XWin :1 $OPTIONS localhost:1.0 /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
Charly XWin :2 $OPTIONS localhost:2.0 /tmp/.X11-unix/X2
If the /tmp/.X11-unix directory still makes problems start XWin with
XWin -nolisten unix $OPTIONS
This way the :0.0 display will not work but localhost:0.0 and hostname:0.0
will still work and can be used as replacement.
> > 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
> >
>
NP: grauzone.03-09-28
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