multiple x errors; VESA

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. WIN=xdotool search --class "gnome-terminal"
2. xdotool $win 
3. X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  42 (X_SetInputFocus)
  Serial number of failed request:  17
  Current serial number in output stream:  19

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
get focus on gnome-terminal

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
virtualbox, running VESA-ONLY DRIVER; ubuntu 12.04 all updates, openbox&xdotool 
backported from quantal/raring, openbox version 3.5.0-7, xdotool  
1:2.20110530.1-6.

Please provide any additional information below.

xdotool search --class xterm behave %@ focus getwindowname getwindow  
gives me this when I click on the xterm window

X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  2194
  Current serial number in output stream:  2194

so I suspect it is a problem with running VESA only in virtualbox?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by M8R-rp...@mailinator.com on 19 Apr 2013 at 3:05

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I don't believe this is a problem with vesa/virtualbox; it's probably a bug in 
xdotool. I'll see if I can reproduce.

Original comment by jordan.s...@dreamhost.com on 19 Apr 2013 at 4:43