XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap fails

[Edgar Toernig]

Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to debug a problem with a graphics display program (qiv,  
> if that matters) which I did not write. When I moved my installation  
> from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6, XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap fails,  
> with the following message from the server:
> 
>    Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>    serial 114 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0

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