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From: michels@bob.uucp (Alan Michels)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm with Sun Open Windows 1.0
Keywords: Sun NeWS xterm
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Date: 21 Mar 90 17:50:07 GMT
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In article <8490@cg-atla.agfa.com> felleman@cg-atla.agfa.com (John Felleman) writes:
>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?

I just had this explained to me by someone at Sony.  (The Sony server
also does this.)  The problem is not in the server but in xterm:

+The problem is that xterms in releases up to X11R4 had a
+bug in them.  The bug is that they call XGrabPointer with an
+even mask that has values set that shouldn't be (xlock, FrameMaker,
+and a few others do this as well).
+
+The Sony X11R3 server has a lot of X11R4 "fixes" in it, and this
+includes the code that checks for these "out of range" values.
+
+The solution is to assume that the Sony server is as tight as the
+R4 server is, and tell the server to be "backwards compatible".
+To do this, create the file ~/.xserverrc, make it executable, and
+put the lines
+
+        #!/bin/sh
+        exec /usr/bin/X11/Xnews bc
+
+in it (note: no - before the bc).  After you restart the server,
+things will work fine.

The solution on X11R4 is to run xset bc.

I don't know what the solution is on X11/NeWS or on HP-UX 7.0.  Anybody
out there know what to do?
Alan Michels
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