That was it...and that was the 1 line missing my ssh_config file. I already had: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes Thanks... > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Allie Daneman <df@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Has anyone had any issues like this with X ? >> >> X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private >> resource >> denied) >> Major opcode of failed request: 102 (X_ChangeKeyboardControl) > > What are you doing when you get the error? Are you by any chance > using X over ssh? > A little googling found this: > http://www.cs.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxChangesAugust2005 > >>From the link: > "This is a result of the openssh upgrade, which adds some security > measures to X11 forwarding. The solution to ridding yourself of these > error messages is to add the line > > ForwardX11Trusted yes > > to your ~/.ssh/config file. X applications will then forward just > fine. If you still have trouble, make sure you don't have an > inadvertent emacs alias to emacs -nw, and if that doesn't work, use > the -Y flag to ssh." > > -- > Ryan W Sims > >