Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12 How reproducible: very Steps to Reproduce: 1. log into a solaris 5.8 machine 2. start up an emacs edit session of some arbitrary text file 3. use the mouse to position the cursor to some place in the text Actual results: emacs dies with this error: X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 38 Expected results: i expect the cursor to be positioned at the place where i clicked the mouse Additional info: this did not happen when i used fedora core2 this does not happen on an emacs on SGI
It is not related to Solaris, it is remote X displays in general. I get the same logging into RHEL3 servers and FC3 servers (via ssh). I can even force it on my own machine by logging into it via ssh : [sp@sp-laptop ~]$ ssh localhost Last login: Fri Nov 26 09:24:39 2004 from localhost.localdomain [sp@sp-laptop ~]$ echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 [sp@sp-laptop ~]$ emacs X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 38
As per the Fedora Core 3 release notes, the official "openssh" software developers have changed the default behaviour of "ssh -X", which now no longer works the way it did previously. In order to get the same behaviour that "ssh -X" previously had, you must invoke it as "ssh -Y" instead. Reassigning to openssh component, for consideration of changing it to have "-Y" enabled by default, so it works out of the box like people seem to expect.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137685 ***