Problems running X apps via ssh from non-FC3 box

[Toralf Lund]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Do, den 19.05.2005 schrieb Toralf Lund um 22:27:
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>>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.
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>>% 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)'.
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>http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.13
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Ah. Yes. I believe that's it - although I'm not able to test on the Mac 
right now. Thanks.

So it's a client issue after all... I remembered incorrectly, of course 
- it was ssh *from* an RHEL 4 box that was problematic, not to it...

- Toralf