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  • On a typical desktop system, you'd better make /tmp/.X11-unix/* world-readable as well, or you won't be able to start X applications any more. Commented Apr 8, 2013 at 22:51
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    chmod a=rwX,o+t /tmp -R should do the find magic. Commented Feb 4, 2016 at 22:12
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    @dhill, your command ends up with strange permissions: -rw-rw-rwT those are not the original permissions Commented Apr 12, 2020 at 4:29