Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: > Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered > a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process > couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem.

Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the correct

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Iain Campbell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts tr

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: > > > >> I'm new to the list. Hi! > >> > >> I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and > >> the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X > >> working on my off

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: > I'm new to the list. Hi! > > I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the > other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working > on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal > acc

Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal account. I've checked /tmp/XWin.log but there are no dis