Can't start a specific remote X app any more

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander,

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> yn Thu, 18 Mar 2004 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> 
> 
>>I recently upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.7(0.109/3/2), including
>>XWin release 4.3.0.56 installed from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-16.tar.bz2
>>
>>Now when I try to run one particular remote X application (my MUA) I get
>>this error:
>>
>>X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>>  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>>  Atom id in failed request:  0xee
>>  Serial number of failed request:  12
>>  Current serial number in output stream:  15
>>
>>The remote (linux) machine has not had its sshd config changed since
>>2002.  It has "X11Forwarding yes", and used to work fine.
>>
>>If I ssh -X into the machine, DISPLAY is set to localhost:10.0
> 
> 
> 
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding

Any reason we don't tell people to use "ssh -Y" instead of "ssh -X"? 
That is the new command-line parameter to use trusted X11 forwarding and 
it works like a charm.

Harold