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Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: davidst at csc dot lsu dot edu
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:51:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?
- References: <29889419.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 05/10/2010 18:22, davidstvz wrote:
Is it possible to make Cygwin work with xwin as an unprivileged user. I'm
even open to stupid hacks like making the entire Cygwin directory owned by
the "Everyone" group. I tried that but then it couldn't create a socket
needed after I ran 'startxwin'.
Anyway to get this working without using "run as" admin?
This question more properly belongs on the cygwin-xfree list.
Adding the xserver option '-nolisten inet' might help, if the problem really
is in creating the network socket.
You might get more useful advice if you showed the actual error message you
get, for example by attaching the /var/log/XWin.0.log
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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