We raised this observation in past discussions and bug reports.

I am not using TDM. I start X from the command line with startx. 
Yet I see /tmp/tdesocket-global being created with the login user 
having full ownership to the directory. The logged-in user can view 
the contents of the directory, which is always empty.

Why is the /tmp/tdeglobal-socket directory being created when TDM 
is not being used? What global socket connections are required when 
Trinity is run without TDM or in run level 3?

Darrell