Charles, I guess you are using SSH. Please see the following FAQ entry. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding
Hope this helps. Takuma Murakami > I'm using cygwin to window into a Solaris box. > > I have this setup on my desktop computer (Windows 2000) and it works fine. > I attempted to do the same thing on my laptop and it fails if I try to > bring up the "textedit" editor. > however it works for xterm, and some other applications. > > I'm using startxwin.bat to startup the X-session. > it's doing a: > start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard > run xterm -s1 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms -red -fg yellow -bg black > -e /usr/bin/bash -l > > > > the error I see is: > > X Error (intercepted): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major Request Code: 7 > Minor Request Code: 0 > Resource ID (XID): 58 > Error Serial Number: 48 > 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: 48 > Current serial number in output stream: 57 > > ------------------------- > this also works someones and fails other times. > > We've reloaded cygwin a couple times to make sure we had the latest software. > Chuck
