Aidan> Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Roland Aidan> Fehrenbacher: Aidan> Okay, beyond that the only thing I can suggest is Aidan> 1. xemacs -vanilla Aidan> Then, within that XEmacs: Aidan> 2. ESC : (gnuserv-start) RET Aidan> Then, from a terminal: Aidan> 3. gnuclient -nw Indeed this worked, and brought me on the right track. Aidan> If the problem is no longer there in that context, which Aidan> I'm pretty sure will be the case, then it's provoked by Aidan> something in your init file. The traditional way to find Aidan> such problems if you're not sure where to start is to Aidan> temporarily remove half the file, restart, see if the Aidan> problem persists; if it does, the problem is in the half Aidan> you didn't remove. If it's gone, it's in the half you Aidan> removed. Then temporarily remove half of the half that gave Aidan> the problem, repeating the process until you find the line Aidan> that provokes it. Looking though my initialization files, I found the following piece of code: (standard-display-european 1) (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 'accept-8bit-input) Uncommenting this mad everything work fine. I don't remember where I got that code from, but it's probably some years I've put it in, and it doesn't seem necessary anymore. I guess I really need to work through my init setup, and take all the old garbage out (using xemacs since 15 years). Anyway, many thanks for your very patient help. Enjoy your week-end, Roland