Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] ssh X11 forwarding and X errors

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From: Daniele Orlandi <daniele@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:29:31 +0100
Hello,

I'd like to confirm what Christian Hirsch posted in

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200501/msg00209.html

Ethereal produces and X error when starting from a remote ssh connection.

The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 117 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0)
[...]

It may be related to the splash-screen since it produces that error even when 
run with --help. 

I found that a workaround is to enable trusted X11 forwarding by adding -Y to 
the ssh command line.

Bye,

-- 
  Daniele Orlandi