Another problem from a debian user. I've duplicated parts of it. I can get a bunch of messages like: xemacs21-mule: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 65 (X_PolyLine) Resource id in failed request: 0x5da Serial number of failed request: 18492 Current serial number in output stream: 18511 xemacs21-mule: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 74 (X_PolyText8) Resource id in failed request: 0x5da Serial number of failed request: 18493 Current serial number in output stream: 18511 xemacs21-mule: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 69 (X_FillPoly) Resource id in failed request: 0x5da Serial number of failed request: 18494 Current serial number in output stream: 18511 But no lockup or crash. Thanks Jim -- ＠James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.org&gt; | Blessed Be! ＠ http://www.lewismoss.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! ＠"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach