Re: BadAtom with latest XWin

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, ZXPLESPAC001, Ext wrote:

> 	Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with Xwin. Here are the facts:
> - latest cygwin on NT4
> - remotely logued with ssh on a Linux RH Enterprise WS3 machine
> - launched gvim 
> 
> Here is the error message (gvim was relaunched with '--sync'):
> The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
>   (Details: serial 304 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

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

> 
> And infos on the server:
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.7.0.0-8
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -multiwindow -lesspointer -ac -xkbmodel pc105 -xkblayout fr -xkbvariant
> nodeadkeys
> 
> 	I noticed that when I launch the Xwin server with other 
> options (XWin -query remote_linux -nodecoration -lesspointer -ac -engine 2 
> -xkbmodel pc105 -xkblayout fr -xkbvariant nodeadkeys), I haven't the
> problem. Using cygwin/gvim locally on the NT machine works fine too.
> 
> 

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