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Multiple users cannot open processing due to folder in /tmp/ #666

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Created by: jonalf

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I maintain a classroom of ubuntu 20.0.4 computers, multiple users, with unique accounts, per day need to be able to launch and run processing. Students started to complain that they were getting a strange error when trying to launch processing. Processing is installed locally in
/usr/local/bin/

After investigating, I discovered that processing creates a directory in:
/tmp/processing
This directory is owned by the user that opened processing, but remains after processing is closed and the user has logged out. I believe that the existence of this directory is keeping other users from launching processing. Rebooting the computer (or just removing the directory in /tmp does allow a new user to start processing.

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