Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > Speaking of file descriptors, does anybody know of a way to get the fd > of the connection to the X server or at least a "pseudo-select" (like > Svgalib has)? If you're willing to use Xt then you may use XtAppAddInput(). I don't know of a solution which is nearly as clean for raw Xlib. --Adam -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@gimp.org http://www.foxbox.org/