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Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Cygwin-XFree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:23:24 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed
- References: <1089043326.491.7.camel@localhost>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> It turns out that the key to avoiding this is invoking the SSH
> connection with the '-Y' option, and NOT the '-X' option, like this -
>
> ssh -C -Y user@host.com
>
> Once again, after a lot of searching (and swearing) it was Harold L.
> Hunt who came up with the answer:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00701.html
>
> Thanks, Harold.
>
> PS - I KNOW that this is obviously OLD news, but I only ended up
> stumbling on the solution almost by chance, and I thought it was worth
> repeating here, in case someone else is having the same problem.
It is stated in the FAQ for some months now.
bye
ago
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