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Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
- References: <a74950d40811120334o1c0780d7mf16403f520a4ad9e@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Maarten Vanneste wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly
> basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed
> that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the
> nedit editor fails to operate, returning the following error message:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
> Serial number of failed request: 289
> Current serial number in output stream: 299
>
> (The last two numbers change after rebooting).
nedit needs rebuilding with a patch to work around an issue in lesstif with
the latest X server.
It appears this hasn't happened yet.
If I am understanding this mail [1] correctly, until this happens, you can
work around the issue by having XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS in your enviroment,
e.g. try running nedit like this...
$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
$ nedit
and this appears to work for me when I try it.
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-11/msg00078.html
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