X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_TV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CAC7EC5.5040306@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:51:01 +0100 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: davidst@csc.lsu.edu Subject: Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user? References: <29889419.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <29889419.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple