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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

2529.0. "DECW$SM.LOG error message." by UTRTSC::CAHILL () Wed Mar 28 1990 10:47

Problem Description:

I have a customer who sets host from one workstation to another,edits
a file (or some other VMS function) and finds if he leaves his terminal
for sometime he is logged out and recieves the following error message 
in his DECW$SM.LOG.
Has anyone any ideas....

Error Message.

        X  error event recieved from server: BadMatch - parameter mismatch
        Failed request major op code 42 X_SetInputFocus                
        Failed request minor op code 0 (if applicable)                 
        ResourceID 0x30001c in failed request (if applicable)          
        Serial number of failed request 364                            
        Current serial number in output stream 365                     
      Session Error: %NONAME-E-NOMSG,Message number 02DB822A
    
    
    
Thanks.
    
    GC.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2529.1		UTRTSC::CAHILL		`Thu Mar 29 1990 08:28`	10
	OK.. let me ask another question.. Any ideas where the error message is generated from and WHY? Thanks again. GC.
2529.2	That I can answer...	DECWIN::FISHER	Prune Juice: A Warrior's Drink!	`Thu Mar 29 1990 18:41`	11
	THAT I can answer at some level, anyway. The message is sent from the server to the client. It says that the client tried to do a reqeust called SetInputFocus, and one or more of the parameters was incorrect. In this case, a Match error indicates that the window to which focus was being set was not viewable (perhaps one of its parents was unmapped or some such). Why all this has anything to do with the stated circumstances is the mystery. Burns
2529.5	Harmless and expected	DECWIN::KLEIN		`Fri Mar 30 1990 11:05`	11
	Assigning focus to an iconified window results in this error (warning) message. Because of the asynchronous nature of the window manager / application execution, this error cannot be avoided. It is up to each application to write an X error handler to ignore this error. Examples of such an error handler have been posted in at least two places (by me) but I don't remember where exactly. The message is harmless and should be ignored by the user if not by the application. -steve-