[X-Unix] XWindows

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May AKappyCT assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| My new PowerBook came with Tiger installed - generally a joy to behold. 
| Until I got to XWindows.
| Got X11 loaded and proceeded to initiate a familiar XWindows session 
| with my server at the office.
| 
| The result:
| 
| X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
|   Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
|   Atom id in failed request:  0xba
|   Serial number of failed request:  221
|   Current serial number in output stream:  224

I guess the first question is how are you poiting the remote client to your
x server? I use the x11 forwarding on ssh (-X), though sometimes I need to
use -Y. Run the following on your powerbook and on the remote client:

printenv DISPLAY

This is what I get:

Powerbook:            :0.0
Debian (client):      localhost:10.0

If you're using ssh, use the -v switch to get the verbose output.

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