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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 andrew.maguire@ps.ge.com wrote:

> I have just tried building emacs on Solaris 8 (we are using gcc 2.7.2.3)
> but I get the same problem. Note that if I try make-frame-on-display
> on a UNIX type machine I get a BadWindow error (code 3).
> I get a BadAtom error (code 18) when I try to connect to Exceed 6.1 on a
> Windows NT machine.

Do I understand correctly that the problem happens even without Exceed 
being used, i.e. if you run the X version of Emacs on a Unix box?

If so, please tell what toolkit did you build Emacs with.  Also, does the 
technique outlined in etc/DEBUG (search for "If you encounter X protocol 
errors") help to investigate this probelem?