On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > I am trying to connect to a Sun UNIX box and display > the graphics on my PC running Cygwin. I am using > the command ssh -X -l <user-name> <remote-machine>.
Wrong list. Redirecting to cygwin-xfree. Please delete <cygwin at cygwin dot com> from subsequent discussion. > The connection is being made OK, but when I try and > run something with X graphics I get an error message > of the form: > X Error (intercepted): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major Request Code : 7 > Minor Request Code : 0 > Resource ID (XID) : 58 > Error Serial Number : 47 > 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: 47 > Current serial number in output stream: 56 > > I have a Netgear DG834G router/firewall, neither of which are > showing anything in the log. The odd thing is that I tried > the same thing from my work PC and it was fine. I updated > the whole of my Cygwin installation yesterday. > > Any help would be very gratefully received. > > Thanks, > Dr Christian Hicks <http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote>, which has the same answer that a Google search for 'BadWindow "invalid window parameter" ssh site:cygwin.com' (or even 'BadWindow Cygwin') would have shown... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
