John> I'm still seeing the problem detailed in the attached msg - but I'm John> not so sure any more that it's related to virtual desktops - it also John> happens right after I save a buffer John> John> [...] John> John> no one else sees this? John> John> Signaling: (error "unrecognized selection-conversion type" nil John> #<INTERNAL OBJECT (XEmacs bug?) (opaque, size=4) 0x1063db60>) mts> I've seen this very message, but under different circumstances with Sun mts> Solaris 2.7. mts> mts> I get this same error when I select text while running the Clipboard mts> application of WinDD. (WinDD is an app that displays a remote MS-Windows mts> session on an X11 desktop. The Clipboard is a separate X11 program that mts> allows cut-and-paste between the two desktops.) I have no problem at all mts> with XEmacs when not running WinDD Clipboard. mts> mts> This problem was reported to me by another user at our site, who said it mts> did not occur with XEmacs 19.11, but it does occur with 20.2 (we're a mts> little behind the times here) if that's of any help. I just noticed another aspect of this problem - I think it's related to my use of SNiFF[1] - that is, I just noticed that I've never seen it except in an XEmacs in which I've initiated communication with a SNiFF process, and it starts happening almost immediately after initiating the communication. This is interesting because as with your example it's a case of XEmacs communicating with another process. SNiFF is a source browser-type tool sort of like oo-browser or (I think) Cygnus' Source Navigator. It has nice integration with XEmacs in that you can display results of retrieves, etc. in XEmacs rather than the integrated editor - they provide a sniff.el that sets up the communication, adds menus for controlling SNiFF from XEmacs, etc. Anyway, I thought this was a relatively recent phenomenon - almost certainly somewhere in the 21.2 series, but not sure where - but you say you've seen it with 20.2 as well... Would anyone like to look at sniff.el to see if anything jumps out about it? It's over 600 lines long, so I hate to just post the thing... -- John A. Turner, Senior Research Associate Blue Sky Studios, One South Rd, Harrison, NY 10528 http://www.blueskystudios.com/ (914) 825-8319