Crash: gqview over ssh connection, crashes on menu/tooltip/popup

Hi...

 Ok, I do not see any mention of this in TODO, and as I can find no bugzilla
for gqview I'm reporting it here.  :)

 First, I realize this might be a big pain in the butt to try to fix.  I'm
willing to provide lots of information, but so far I have not been able to
gather much.  Specifically, running gqview in gdb over a forwarded X
connection does not seem to accomplish anything.  I've been unable to find
information about this, so if somebody can tell me how to do this I'd be
glad!

 Summary:
 Running gqview on a ssh-forwarded X session, the program exits with an X
error if I attempt to use a menu, pop up a dialog, or allow a tooltip to
appear.

 More detail:
 Here's a transcript of a typical session, in which I click on the "File"
menu:

rassilon@nenene rassilon $ ssh -X panopticon
Password:
Last login: Tue Nov 30 19:22:18 2004 from 192.168.0.6
rassilon@panopticon rassilon $ gqview &
[1] 18859
rassilon@panopticon rassilon $ GQview 1.5.4, This is a development release!
Expect bugs.
/home/rassilon/.gtkrc.mine:1: error: unexpected character `/', expected
string constant
Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display "localhost:12.0".
The program 'gqview' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 2048 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

[1]+  Exit 1                  gqview

 I am on Gentoo Linux here, and I've compiled gqview without stripping the
binary.  However, running it from inside gdb over an ssh connection, does
not cause gqview to appear on my display, so I cannot trigger any
conditions that cause this exit.  Gdb also complains that it cannot insert
breakpoints and such:

(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/gqview
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
warning: Cannot insert breakpoint -2:
Cannot access memory at address 0x29200

 Pretty much the same thing happens if I say "r --sync" instead, and gdb
also says that it cannot find a function called "gdk_x_error" if I try to
set a breakpoint there (using the command, "break gdk_x_error").  I'm not a
gdb expert, but I do try to use the help system.  :)

 If it matters, the gqview binary resides on an Intel box (Pentium 3, SMP),
and I'm making my connection from a PPC box (G3, SMP).  Also, the Intel box
has Xfree 4.3.0, and the PPC box has Xorg 6.7.0.

 I'll be very happy to provide any more information required to help fix
this problem, but it seems that I need some guidance in order to be able to
provide that information.  In particular, it seems I need more knowledge
about how to run X programs through gdb over ssh.  Google has not been
helpful in this area.  :/

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