BadWindow Error on Solaris Textedit startup

[Harold L Hunt II]

As Takuma said, try "ssh -Y" instead of "ssh -X", which will turn off 
the now-enabled-by-default trusted X11 tunneling "feature".

Harold

Charles E. Cooper wrote:

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