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From: smarks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart W. Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm with Sun Open Windows 1.0
Message-ID: <9003202004.AA09762@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 20:04:00 GMT
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| We have just begun using some of the X11 features of our X11/NeWS
| server (OPEN WINDOWS 1.0), and are having some birthing pains.
| When we try to run xterm from a System V client, the server returns
| the following error:
| 
| X Protocol error detected by server: integer parameter out of range
|   Failed request major op code 2 X_ChangeWindowAttributes
|   Failed request minor op code 0 (if applicable)
|   ResourceID 0x40001a in failed request (if applicable)
|   Serial number of failed request 72
|   Current serial number in output stream 77
|   
| Can anyone explain what is going on?  What, if anything, can we
| do to fix the problem?

It looks like you're using an old version of xterm.  Versions of xterm
dating from X11R3 and before have a bug where they set a window's
do-not-propagate mask to an illegal value, ~0.  (This mask is restricted to
device events only, and ~0 contains mask bits for non-device events.)
Older servers (X11R3 and before) didn't detect this error.  Newer servers,
such as X11/NeWS and X11R4, will generate the error you're seeing.

The only real fix is to get a more recent version of xterm.  I believe that
xterm doesn't set the illegal value until it creates a scrollbar, so you
might not get the error if you turn off xterm's scrollbar.

s'marks

Stuart W. Marks			ARPA: smarks@eng.sun.com
Window Systems Group		UUCP: sun!smarks
Sun Microsystems, Inc.