BadWindow Error on Solaris Textedit startup

[Charles E. Cooper]

I'm using cygwin to window into a Solaris box.

I have this setup on my desktop computer (Windows 2000) and it works fine.
I attempted to do the same thing on my laptop and it fails if I try to 
bring up the "textedit" editor.
however it works for xterm, and some other applications.

I'm using startxwin.bat to startup the X-session.
    it's doing a:
         start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard
           run xterm -s1 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms -red -fg yellow -bg black 
-e /usr/bin/bash -l



the error I see is:

X Error (intercepted): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major Request Code:   7
Minor Request Code:   0
Resource ID (XID):       58
Error Serial Number:    48
XView warning:  invalid object (not a pointer), xv_get
finished; X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
    Major opcode of failed request:   7 (X_ReparentWindow)
    Resource id in failed request:  0x3a
    Serial number of failed request:  48
    Current serial number in output stream:  57

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this also works someones and fails other times.

We've reloaded cygwin a couple times to make sure we had the latest software.
Chuck


Charles E. Cooper
Swift Program
Applied Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
(814) 865-6829
ccooper@psu.edu