On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Luke Schierer wrote:
----- Forwarded message from Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> -----
[warren@metzingen warren]$ gaim
The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 207 error_code 3 request_code 2 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.)
Any ideas?
From: Etan Reisner
ssh changed some of it's options "recently" so that -X no longer
forwards X the way it used to. ssh -X forwards in some sort of 'safe'
mode which doesn't allow apps to do certain things they might want to
do. Try ssh -Y which "[e]nables trusted X11 forwarding" according to the
manpage.
The man page of ssh says to be cautious of the -X option, and does not
mention any caution next to the -Y option. Perhaps that could use some
clarification upstream, and we should mention this change of behavior in
FC's release notes?
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com