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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (the man whose head expanded)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: novice xpoff question
Message-ID: <1450@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 28 Apr 89 10:56:50 GMT
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Reply-To: crouch@axion.bt.co.uk
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Organisation: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH UK

I'm trying to get xpoff running on an hp9000/340, running their version of
X11 (R2 I think). With no parameters specified it works fine; however if I
give it an -up_flag or -down_flag option it comes up with the following
error message and gives up.

X Protocol error detected by server:  BadMatch, invalid parameter attributes
  Failed request major op code 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Failed request minor op code 0 (if applicable)
  ResourceID 0xb00008 in failed request (if applicable)
  Serial number of failed request 33
  Current serial number in output stream 33

The manual page for XCopyArea says a BadMatch error will occur if the
drawables do not have the same root and depth. What does this mean, and how
do I fix it.

Incidentally if I use -display to put the bitmap onto a vaxstation display
it works fine.

		Chris Rouch

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