Problems running X apps via ssh from non-FC3 box

[Toralf Lund]

I'm having trouble starting X11 apps that reside on an FC3 box and 
display them on a remove X server via ssh. This happens with various 
different X servers on non-FC3 boxes. Again, that's when I ssh *to* FC3 
*from* a different OS/distro.

One example from a Mac OS X session is taken below. I think I've seen 
the same kind of error on Red Hat 9, too. In fact, I may also get the 
same problem if remote host is running Enterprise Linux 4 rather than FC3.

This is a kind of problem that make me very upset, since the ability to 
do this kind of operation is normally one of the real advantages of 
Linux (perhaps the most important one.) I mean, if you give that away, 
where are you going to be...

Help, anyone?

% ssh 192.168.2.52 gnome-terminal --sync
dd at 192.168.2.52's password:
The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 81 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)