Re: Can't start a specific remote X app any more

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Alexander,

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> yn Thu, 18 Mar 2004 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>
>
> > I recently upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.7(0.109/3/2), including
> > XWin release 4.3.0.56 installed from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-16.tar.bz2
> >
> > Now when I try to run one particular remote X application (my MUA) I get
> > this error:
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
> >  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
> >  Atom id in failed request:  0xee
> >  Serial number of failed request:  12
> >  Current serial number in output stream:  15
> >
> > The remote (linux) machine has not had its sshd config changed since
> > 2002.  It has "X11Forwarding yes", and used to work fine.
> >
> > If I ssh -X into the machine, DISPLAY is set to localhost:10.0
>
>
>
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding

Any reason we don't tell people to use "ssh -Y" instead of "ssh -X"? 
That is the new command-line parameter to use trusted X11 forwarding and 
it works like a charm.

Harold