small number of lines: X error

[Raphaël Berbain]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2001-10-29 on jesus
configured using `configure  --prefix=/home/raph/local/emacs-21.1 
--with-x-toolkit=athena --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif 
--with-png --without-toolkit-scroll-bars'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I started Emacs with:
emacs -geometry 20x5 -q --no-site-file

and got:
X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 8



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