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Re: FW: XWin Xserver maximum root area exceeded?


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bonert Brigitte wrote:

> > I am trying to use the prebuilt XWin.exe on a root area of 
> > 12800x2048 (20 projectors arranged in 2 rows each with a resolution of
> 1280x1024)
> > 
> > The application on the Unix side (DEC Alpha) uses Pseudo colors so I run
> with 256 colors only on the special PC which runs a modified WIndows2000
> with a special DisplayDriver which supports this resolution (it contains 20
> video cards).
> > 
> > When I run XWin.exe on my PC and display the pictures of the application
> on the Unix server everything works just fine (I can have only 256 colors
> which make for some strange colors) but on the special PC I am getting this
> error (within the Unix application):
> > 
> > X_Error Bad Window (invalid Window parameter) 
> > Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)

Just a guess: Are you using ssh? Try adding ForwardX11Trusted to your .ssh/config
file (http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding)

bye
	ago
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