Emacs on Linux crashes in XQueryPointer

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alan Shutko wrote:

> I've got a Debian Sid box running XFree86 (debian package 4.3.0-7).
> If I pipe emacs -q from it (emacs 21.3 or CVS, doesn't matter) to my
> WinXP box running XWin 6.7.0.0-1, click the window to get rid of the
> Emacs intro screen, and select text right to left, Emacs crashes with 
> 
> X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 38

I assume "pipe" means ssh tunnel.  If so, see A1 in this FAQ entry:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding

Harold