Yes, Stephed, you are right. With Motif enabled xemacs crashes on exit. Without Motif it works fine. Thanks for the hint. Nick. intro: "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Nickolay> Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). Nickolay> - Using Motif to provide XIM support. SJT> Nick, SJT> Motif is known to cause problems even if no Motif widgets are used for SJT> display (it changes the event loop). SJT> I suggest adding --with-xim=xlib (or --with-xim=no) to your configure SJT> line. SJT> I'm working on a patch to configure.in which will default to xlib unless SJT> Motif is already being used, but this is a very hairy part of configure. SJT> Please use the explicit switch for now. SJT> -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences SJT> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 SJT> Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; SJT> ask what your business can "do for" free software.