SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I think you are misunderstanding Glynn, or I am. I think he starts XEmacs from his WM but is running gnuclient in an xterm. Jan This second case where it matter whether XEmacs is started from the WM or otherwise, I cannot figure out why it should make a differnce. The other guys bug is even more weird but reprodable (if XEmacs is started from mwm, (gnuserv-start) is in .emacs THEN (and only then) XEmacs does not see second request to edit files (although gnuserv writes it on STDOUT, XEmacs never calls the process filter), using gnuclient -batch twice works.). It is so complicated that I agreed with him to wait for 21.0 in the hope that all the process and stream fixups magically fix it. Anybody have a clue about what is typically different between a WM environment and say a shell in Xterm? (Note the unix environment is more-or-less the same in each case)