I have found that xwinclip dies if I try to put it into the background: msp-arjuno 398: xwinclip UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
Suspended msp-arjuno 399: bg [1] xwinclip & Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing. The most likely reason is that the EINTR return from select() is not being ignored. This diff should fix it, but I do not have a development environment loaded: --- xwinclip.c.~1~ 2003-01-12 20:27:22.000000000 -0500 +++ xwinclip.c 2003-03-23 16:26:39.000000000 -0500 @@ -439,7 +439,10 @@ NULL); /* No timeout */ if (iReturn <= 0) { - printf ("Call to select () failed: %d. Bailing.\n", iReturn); + if (errno == EINTR) + continue; + fprintf(stderr, "Call to select () failed: %s. Bailing.\n", + strerror(errno)); break; } Thanks. Jeff