On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to get my Win2K computer prepared to install lyx. I've just > installed Cygwin and XFree86. All seemed to go well. However, when I run > XFree86 I get the following message: > > --XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root. > > Then the XFree86 window comes up for a moment, then closes. > > How do I correct this?
Have you tried asking on the cygwin list?
Meanwhile, on my Linux box, I have the following:
[ccurley@charlesc public_html]$ ll -d /tmp/.X11-unix/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:32 /tmp/.X11-unix/
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