Colin Rafferty <craffert(a)ms.com&gt; writes: I'm a likely candidate, although there were other people who tried to fix the problem before (most notably Steve.) Interestingly enough, my fix didn't work for me when I tested it on Solaris (XEmacs would enter a dumb mode), but I installed it anyway because the new code simply seemed like a sensible thing to do. I'm glad it at least helped someone. 1998-08-28 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; * event-Xt.c (emacs_Xt_mapping_action): Check for device being deleted. (x_event_to_emacs_event): Ditto. (emacs_Xt_handle_focus_event): Ditto. (emacs_Xt_handle_magic_event): Ditto. * console-x.h (struct x_device): New flag being_deleted. (DEVICE_X_BEING_DELETED): New macro. * device-x.c (x_IO_error_handler): Throw to top-level instead of returning. Before doing that, set the being_deleted flag on the device. 1998-08-27 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; * device-x.c (x-seppuku-on-epipe): Removed.