Re: [vile] Unable to cut/paste on RH linux.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Steven Lembark wrote:

> This stopped happening for a short time, then started
> happening again:
>
> - Uanble to paste into xvile.
> - Paste from xvile into any window from a remote
>  host (i.e., via DISPLAY set from remote box)
>  blows up with:

hmm - xvile dies?  (I guess so - we should catch the X errors).

> $ echo 'X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>  Atom id in failed request:  0x197
>  Serial number of failed request:  1004
>  Current serial number in output stream:  1006
>
> This is with 9.6j applied (i.e., everything matching
> vile-9.6?.patch.gz) on virgin filesystem (i.e., rm -rf
> with extract source).
>
> Code built with:
>
>    #!/bin/bash -vx
>
>    export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
>
>    for i in tcap Xaw
>    do
>        make distclean;
>
>        ./configure                             \
>            --prefix=$HOME                      \
>            --with-builtin-filters='perl,c'     \
>            --with-scr=$i                       \
>        && make -wk all install;
>    done
>
>    exit 0;
>
> xvile running locally will happily cut
> and paste, it's only the stuff coming
> from a remote host that bites me.
>
> I'm rebuilding a copy of xvile on my home
> gentoo system now to see if this is some
> obscene collection of X11 settings; any
> suggestions of things to check appreciated.

I read some recent news/mailing comment that said this would happen if one
doesn't have xauth running - at the moment I don't recall how xauth and 
ssh's X forwarding work together.  But that's the general area to 
investigate.

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