X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 02:13, freebsd-stable at auscert.org.au wrote:

> If I attempt to run a gui app like wish, it won't launch and produces this
> error:
>
>   %wish8.4
> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>   Atom id in failed request:  0x1a5
>   Serial number of failed request:  12
>   Current serial number in output stream:  15
>
> I'm running 5.3 on the server and desktop, with X forwarded over an ssh
> tunnel.

You probably need to turn on trusted X11 forwarding. See the ssh manpage for 
more information.

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