BadWindow Error on Solaris Textedit startup
Takuma Murakami
takuma@dgp.ne.jp
Thu Mar 25 15:35:00 GMT 2004
Charles,
I guess you are using SSH. Please see the following FAQ entry.
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding
Hope this helps.
Takuma Murakami
> 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
>
> -------------------------
> this also works someones and fails other times.
>
> We've reloaded cygwin a couple times to make sure we had the latest software.
> Chuck
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