Re: BadWindow Error on Solaris Textedit startup

[Takuma Murakami <takuma at dgp dot ne dot jp>]

Charles,

I guess you are using SSH.  Please see the following FAQ entry.
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding

Hope this helps.

Takuma Murakami


> I'm using cygwin to window into a Solaris box.
> 
> I have this setup on my desktop computer (Windows 2000) and it works fine.
> I attempted to do the same thing on my laptop and it fails if I try to 
> bring up the "textedit" editor.
> however it works for xterm, and some other applications.
> 
> I'm using startxwin.bat to startup the X-session.
>     it's doing a:
>          start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard
>            run xterm -s1 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms -red -fg yellow -bg black 
> -e /usr/bin/bash -l
> 
> 
> 
> the error I see is:
> 
> X Error (intercepted): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major Request Code:   7
> Minor Request Code:   0
> Resource ID (XID):       58
> Error Serial Number:    48
> XView warning:  invalid object (not a pointer), xv_get
> finished; X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>     Major opcode of failed request:   7 (X_ReparentWindow)
>     Resource id in failed request:  0x3a
>     Serial number of failed request:  48
>     Current serial number in output stream:  57
> 
> -------------------------
> this also works someones and fails other times.
> 
> We've reloaded cygwin a couple times to make sure we had the latest software.
> Chuck