Re: running netscape fails to open

["Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin at pitt dot edu>]

I found the answer myself by reading previous posts, I have to use -Y
instead of -X. Still why does xemacs works with -X and netscape doesn't?
"Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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> I connect to a unix host using ssh -X hostname.
> When I issue the command xemacs& or emacs& it opens a window on my
desktop.
> but when I issue the command netscape I get the following error:
> (76) unixs1 % netscape &
> [1] 15126
> (77) unixs1 % Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Escape,_Key_Cancel" to
> type VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Home,_Key_Begin" to type
VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F1,_Key_Help" to type VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "Shift<Key>F10,_Key_Menu" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F10,Shift_Key_Menu" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>KP_Enter,_Key_Execute" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "Alt<Key>Return,Alt_Key_KP_Enter" to type
> VirtualBinding
> X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x56
>   Serial number of failed request:  78
>   Current serial number in output stream:  78
>
> I tried also another x client (xwin32) and netscape worked fine. So this
> appears to be a bug in cygwin-xfree.
> Am I doing something wrong?
> I run the latest version of cygwin.
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