Bert,

I briefly saw your email in Celeste, then I tried to cut and paste
again.  This of course locked up my machine, and I ended up losing your
email.  I think it would be nice if Celeste auto-saved, or at least
offered that option.

I ended up finding the problem in getSelection.  It looks like RH7.0
doesn't like XMaskEvent and it seems to block.  I got it all working but
it required me to revert back to XNextEvent, per 1.22 on SF.  I copy the
relevant portion below

ugh!

cheers,
Rob


here is a portion of sqXWindow.c>>getSelection which I changed back to
1.22:

  do
    {

     if (XPending(stDisplay) == 0)
        {
          /* no matching event; wait for a while */
          struct timeval timeout= {SELECTION_TIMEOUT, 0};
          int status;

          while ((status= select(FD_SETSIZE, &fdMask, 0, 0, &timeout)) <
0
                 && errno == EINTR);
          if (status < 0)
            {
              /* uh oh */
              perror("select(stDisplay)");
              return stEmptySelection;
            }
          if (status == 0)
            {
              /* timeout; give up */
              if (isConnectedToXServer)
                XBell(stDisplay, 0);
              return stEmptySelection;
            }
        }
      XNextEvent(stDisplay, &ev);

      /* possible events with a mask of 0 are:
           MappingNotify
           ClientMessage
           SelectionClear
           SelectionNotify
           SelectionRequest
      */
      switch (ev.type)
        {
        /* this is necessary so that we can supply our own selection
when we
           are the requestor -- this could (should) be optimised to
return the
           stored selection value instead! */
        case SelectionRequest:
          {
            sendSelection(&ev.xselectionrequest);
#          ifdef USE_XSHM
            if (ev.type == completionType)
              --completions;
#          endif
          }
          break;

        case SelectionClear:
          stOwnsSelection= 0;
          break;

        case MappingNotify:
          XRefreshKeyboardMapping((XMappingEvent *) &ev);
          break;
        }
    }
  while (ev.type != SelectionNotify);