The selection of TTY frames has broken somewhere along the lines. To repeat: $ xemacs -nw -q C-x 5 2 ; to create and select a new frame M-: (select-frame (next-frame)) ; select the original frame For me, this creates a strange effect where keyboard "focus" goes to the other frame, but it is not redisplayed. This is not only obviously wrong, but in discordance with the documentation, that says: Lisp programs can switch frames "temporarily" by calling the function `select-frame'. This does not override the window manager; rather, it escapes from the window manager's control until that control is somehow reasserted. When using a text-only terminal, there is no window manager; therefore, `select-frame' is the only way to switch frames, and the effect lasts until overridden by a subsequent call to `select-frame'. Only the selected terminal frame is actually displayed on the terminal. Each terminal screen except for the initial one has a number, and the number of the selected frame appears in the mode line after the word `XEmacs' (*note Modeline Variables::.). I believe this has been broken by Greg's recent changes to select-frame mechanism. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- 4. Thou shalt not warlorde a sig if it bee the sig of Kibo, nor if it bee the sig of the Inner Circle.