Tk failed with eXceed: BadAtom

flexvault has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have never used X11 or Tk with Perl. So I installed both on a Debian Linux workstation and I could get the 'hello-world' script to work. But when I use 'eXceed' from my PC to connect to the workstation, I get:

~/X11/mptk-code14/ch01$ perl hello-world
X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Atom id in failed request:  0xda
  Serial number of failed request:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  15
~/X11/mptk-code14/ch01$
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I can run the 'X11' examples without a problem, but not the 'Tk' examples. I tried 'super search' on this, but didn't find anything useful. The book 'Mastering Perl/Tk' states:

Atoms...map strings to an integer identifier...
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Does anyone have a pointer to 'how to set Atom parameters for Tk...'

Regards...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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Re: Tk failed with eXceed: BadAtom by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Dec 30, 2014 at 21:44 UTC
"X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)" I don't know what that means, but did you try this? Perhaps this is "a pointer". Regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]
Re: Tk failed with eXceed: BadAtom by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 2014 at 23:02 UTC
What is the version of each thing involved?	[reply]
Re^2: Tk failed with eXceed: BadAtom by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 2014 at 23:32 UTC
X Error of failed request: BadAtom BadDrawable - FedoraForum.org -> 3.13 - I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8 and some X11 programs stopped working. As documented in the 3.8 release notes, ssh will now use untrusted X11 cookies by default. The previous behaviour can be restored by setting ForwardX11Trusted yes in ssh_config.	[reply]