Can't start remote emacs client

[Harold Hunt]

Ian,

> Fatal server error:
> negative sized edge?
> xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

That is a known problem.

Try the Test42 server release, which may or may not fix the problem, from:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/

Please report your results to the list.

Good luck,

Harold