I guess i should have mentioned what i did to produce this error, anyways, I was trying to take a screen shot with the gimp. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x8290000 Serial number of failed request: 1272 Current serial number in output stream: 1272 xwd: can't open file as XWD file