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Try putting the tmp files of cygwin in the user documents :<br />
in startxserver.bat , edit :<br />
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin<br />
to:<br />
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\<wbr />Local Settings\Temp\cygwin<br />

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I feel so stupid. &nbsp;I will give it a try.
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Hi,<br />
<br />
That was a really good idea, but unfortunately it didn't work out for me. &nbsp;I made the changes to the file and the variables get set properly.<br />
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However, even though the variable is properly set, cygwin still writes the .X11-unix folder into the same place:<br />
\cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix<br />
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Bryan<br />
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PS - You did give me an idea. &nbsp;I was thinking maybe I can install CYGWIN under each user account instead of on the whole system. &nbsp;That way each user has his own copy of cygwin. &nbsp;During the setup process, there is a button which says &quot;Only install for me&quot; versus &quot;Install for all users&quot;. &nbsp;I was thinking of giving this a try and maybe the issue will go away. &nbsp;However, it might cause a hundred other issues plus it's a hassle because we have over fifteen users.
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Aha! &nbsp;That is actually what we used to do before the security upgrades. &nbsp;However, when we did the upgrade we are not allowed to let the &quot;everyone&quot; user have full permission on a folder anymore.<br />
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Do you know of a registry key which can &quot;force quit&quot; all running applications upon the user logoff?
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Hi all,<br />
<br />
We have multiuser environment with cygwin/XWin.exe which is all windows XP computers. &nbsp;When a user logs off, they leave behind a C:\cygwin\tmp\.X11 folder (that might not be the exact name but it's something like that).<br />
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When another user logs in they can't use XWin. &nbsp;The reason is because XWin requires to be able to write to this folder c:\cygwin\tmp\.X11. &nbsp;However, since the file is owned by the previous user, the user can't write to it at all and XWin won't start up.<br />
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Is there any solution to this issue?<br />
<br />
Bryan<br />
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PS <br />
So far we have used a logoff.bat script with the text below. &nbsp;However, sometimes this does not work properly because when logoff.bat runs, the XWin of the user has not terminated yet.<br />
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logoff.bat<br />
rm -rf /tmp/.X11
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Hi all,

We have multiuser environment with cygwin/XWin.exe which is all windows XP computers.  When a user logs off, they leave behind a C:\cygwin\tmp\.X11 folder (that might not be the exact name but it's something like that).

When another user logs in they can't use XWin.  The reason is because XWin requires to be able to write to this folder c:\cygwin\tmp\.X11.  However, since the file is owned by the previous user, the user can't write to it at all and XWin won't start up.

Is there any solution to this issue?

Bryan

PS 
So far we have used a logoff.bat script with the text below.  However, sometimes this does not work properly because when logoff.bat runs, the XWin of the user has not terminated yet.

logoff.bat
rm -rf /tmp/.X11

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