Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.

[Keith Thompson <kst at mib dot org>]

"Virgilio, Vincent" <Vincent dot Virgilio at itt dot com> writes:
> I just updated to XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 from -46, and now have two
> problems:
> 
> 1. Clipboard integration is weakened in both 'twm' and multiwindow. I
> can copy/paste between X indows, but not between X and Windows (!).
> 
> 2. Tk/tcl widgets fail. I run one remotely for local display, and then
> see in the remote window:
> 
> X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>   Atom id in failed request: 0x114
>   Serial number of failed request: 370
>   Current serial number in output stream: 372
> 
> (I had to type that in by hand because of problem #1)
> 
> I'm not complaining: cygwin-xfree86 is still a great product. I thought
> this report might be helpful to the developers, if it's not just me.

It's not just you, and it's not the server.

I'm running Cygwin under Windows XP on an IBM Thinkpad T40.  I'm not
using the Cygwin X server; instead, I'm using the Hummingbird Exceed
server, version 7.  I'm running multiple xterm windows; my window manager
is fvwm2.  I've seen the same error using the Cygwin XFree86 server.

Just now, I tried to cut some text from an xterm window.  When I released
the mouse button, the xterm window died.  The parent window had an error
message identical to the one above (except that the atom id and serial
numbers were different).

I've tried backtracking to an older version of xterm, but so far I
haven't been able to correct the problem.  I have the latest versions
of just about everything, except that I've downgraded XFree86-bin from
4.3.0-9 to 4.3.0-8.

Here's the output of "cygcheck -c | grep XFree86":

XFree86-base            4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-bin             4.3.0-8            OK
XFree86-bin-icons       4.3.0-6            OK
XFree86-doc             4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-etc             4.3.0-6            OK
XFree86-f100            4.2.0-3            OK
XFree86-fcyr            4.2.0-3            OK
XFree86-fenc            4.2.0-3            OK
XFree86-fnts            4.2.0-3            OK
XFree86-fscl            4.2.0-3            OK
XFree86-fsrv            4.3.0-7            OK
XFree86-html            4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-jdoc            4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-lib             4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-lib-compat      4.3.0-2            OK
XFree86-man             4.3.0-3            OK
XFree86-nest            4.3.0-5            OK
XFree86-prog            4.3.0-13           OK
XFree86-prt             4.3.0-5            OK
XFree86-ps              4.3.0-1            OK
XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5            OK
XFree86-vfb             4.3.0-5            OK
XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-47           OK
XFree86-xwinclip        4.3.0-2            OK

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