Never mind, I got it figured out. Unfortunately, when X11 is installed
it does not automatically install many of the necessary components.
After searching through the Xorg stuff I found the missing components.
On 11/5/2021 12:00 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
I've just installed X11 and I think all
I've just installed X11 and I think all the necessary pieces to run a
remote X11 terminal. When I run 'xlaunch' I ask to run a remote program
on my Linux host, specifically xterm. When the xterm window opens there
is no command line prompt just the blank xterm screen. What am I
missing? TIA.
Igor Peshansky wrote:
For each user, execute mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp (as man
mount would have told you).
Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ?
Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also
%TEMP%, i.e. C:\Doc...\%USERNAME%\..\Temp) but it did not
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
Igor Peshansky wrote:
For each user, execute mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp (as man
mount would have told you).
Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ?
Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also
%TEMP%,
I am getting the same error as Bart, and I have diagnosed the problem,
but I do not know how to completely fix it.
Problem #1:
XWin uses the same log file name in /tmp for all users. Limited users
cannot overwrite or remove administrator log files, so startxwin.bat
fails.
Workaround #1:
Update
Hi,
Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for
a reason.
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, J Jude wrote:
[snip]
Setting up Cygwin so that each user had their own /tmp dir sounds like
a better workaround for both problems, but I have not yet figured out
how to do that.
JJ In the long run, the Cygwin/X11 distribution should work for limited
JJ users out-of-the-box.
IP I don't think Cygwin/X was ever designed to run by multiple users
IP simultaneously.
We're not talking about simultaneously. In the simple case, we're
talking about a user logging in as
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, J Jude wrote:
JJ In the long run, the Cygwin/X11 distribution should work for limited
JJ users out-of-the-box.
IP I don't think Cygwin/X was ever designed to run by multiple users
IP simultaneously.
We're not talking about simultaneously. In the simple case, we're
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, J Jude wrote:
JJ In the long run, the Cygwin/X11 distribution should work for
JJ limited users out-of-the-box.
IP I don't think Cygwin/X was ever designed to run by multiple users
IP simultaneously.
We're not
To the Gurus of CygwinX,
I've noticed that in order to run CygwinX on separate accounts on the same
machine, all users must have computer administrator privileges under the
Windows XP Professional operating system. Is there any work around to
allow users with limited privileges (such as my
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: running CygwinX with a limited user account
To the Gurus of CygwinX,
I've noticed that in order to run CygwinX on separate accounts on the same
machine, all users must have computer administrator privileges under the
Windows XP Professional operating system
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Bart Bacon wrote:
To the Gurus of CygwinX,
I've noticed that in order to run CygwinX on separate accounts on the
same machine, all users must have computer administrator privileges
under the Windows XP Professional operating system. Is there any work
around to allow
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