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Re: X protocol errors



On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 21:04 +0000, Otto Maddox wrote:
> 
> I am trying to run X applications remotely on a Debian Sarge PowerPC
> server, and have them display locally on my Mac OS X (10.4.5)
> workstation which has Apple X11.
> 
> Every single X application crashes with an error message like this:
> 
> X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol
> request 38
> 
> Does anybody have an idea what's wrong?

If you're using ssh, try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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