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*BUT* for reasons that I find unfathomable, I have to have my xterm open for an hour or so before X applications work. When I first started a particular terminal session, I got this: > $ labconsole 043 > xterm -T "S043-1 via telnet bignts17 5010" -e telnet bignts17 5010 > xterm -T "S043-2 via telnet bignts17 5011" -e telnet bignts17 5011 > xterm -T "S043-3 via telnet bignts17 5012" -e telnet bignts17 5012 > X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) > Major opcod...

...gt; Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC) > Resource id in failed request: 0x1a6 > Serial number of failed request: 1 > Current serial number in output stream: 4 or something similar. Here is a new symptom ($DISPLAY is not set): > xterm -T "S043-1 via telnet bignts17 5010" -e telnet bignts17 5010 > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: And the config files, first from the server (work) machine: > # for f in /etc/ssh/ssh*_config;do echo $f;egrep -v $'^[ \t]*(#|$)' $f ;done > /etc/ssh/ssh_config > Host * > ForwardX11 no > Forw...