Dear Monks,

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

In reply to Tk failed with eXceed: BadAtom by flexvault

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