Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA04588; Mon, 1 May 89 16:28:16 EDT From: Received: by ATHENA.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA00325; Mon, 1 May 89 16:27:01 EDT Received: by PINK.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA11455; Mon, 1 May 89 16:25:55 EDT Date: Mon, 1 May 89 16:25:55 EDT Message-Id: <8905012025.AA11455@PINK.MIT.EDU> To: michon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Parallax server bug? Cc: video-hackers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Also, be sure to check the return values on pixmap creations, etc. Since pixmaps are an unpredicatable resource, your application can work perfectly on one machine and bomb on another because the second machine may have a very limited pixmap space available. Seems to me I had a similar problem back in January. I made a 600x400 bitmap for Pygmalion (then called Multi-Media Mail). Pygmalion worked great on Monochrome workstations, but bombed (with an X protocol error similar to yours) on the Parallax workstations. It turned out that the Parallax didn't have enough pixmap space for a 600x400 bitmap...in fact it seems to have *very* little pixmap area. (I suspect that the server reserves most of off-screen memory for backing-store availability, but that it only an un-educated guess on my part.) -- Brian