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Re: ssh and X server


On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Mario dos Reis wrote:

> I have recently installed Cygwin on my home PC
> (WinXP). I have tried to ssh to a solaris system and
> then running netscape, gut I get the followig error
> message and netscape terminates:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x3a
>   Serial number of failed request:  121
>   Current serial number in output stream:  121
>
> To be honest I have no clue of what's going on.
>
> I normally log onto the same solaris machine from my
> linux laptop at work, and have no problem running
> netscape.

Does
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding>
help?

Look especially at the second and fourth answers.
	Igor
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