On 05/04/07, Sarah Fortune <fortunes at tcd.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>> Does anyone know if putty supports trusted X11 forwarding, the equivalent of
> ssh -Y instead of ssh -X?
> Or if there is some other way to stop getting BadAtom etc. errors (see below).
> I'm using the Cygwin X server.
>> Sarah
>>> X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
> Atom id in failed request: 0x0
> Serial number of failed request: 4997
> Current serial number in output stream: 4997
>
The changelog for putty would imply the X11 code hasn't had any major
changes since 2002, which predates the trusted ssh, another option to
running openssh's client is using a different X11 server, one that
oddly enough doesn't support trusted forwarding should work afaik.
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