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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