Re: [Gaim-devel] Fwd: [gaim-packagers] gaim-0.80 x86_64 RHEL3 trouble...

[Etan R. <de...@ed...>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Luke Schierer wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:48:13 -0400
> From: Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...>
> To: Gaim Devel List <Gai...@li...>
> Subject: [Gaim-devel] Fwd: [gaim-packagers] gaim-0.80 x86_64 RHEL3
>     trouble...
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Warren Togami <wt...@re...> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:26:30 -1000
> From: Warren Togami <wt...@re...>
> To: gai...@sc...
> Subject: [gaim-packagers] gaim-0.80 x86_64 RHEL3 trouble...
>
> [warren@metzingen warren]$ gaim
> The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
>   (Details: serial 207 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)
>
> Attempting to run this over an ssh X forwarder, X server FC3test1 and
> client side RHEL3 U3 x86_64.  I am unable to test this locally anytime soon.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Warren Togami
> wt...@re...
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----

ssh changed some of it's options "recently" so that -X no longer
forwards X the way it used to. ssh -X forwards in some sort of 'safe'
mode which doesn't allow apps to do certain things they might want to
do. Try ssh -Y which "[e]nables trusted X11 forwarding" according to the
manpage.

	-Etan