I tried some of your suggestions and it changed the behaviour a bit.
I first changed to the address-book demo with first exhibited the same behaviour as before. I then changed the default frame manager and now rather than a lowlevel error, I get the following lisp level error which could hint at the aforementioned input focus problem.
No applicable method for args: (#<BEAGLE-PORT :screen MAIN-SCREEN> #<CLIM-DEMO::ADDRESS-BOOK #x9348EBE>) to #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION CLIM-BACKEND:PORT-FRAME-KEYBOARD-INPUT-FOCUS #x8A8156E> [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]
Restarts: 0: [ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level. 1: [ABORT-BREAK] Reset this process 2: [ABORT] Kill this process
Backtrace: 0: (#<CCL::STANDARD-KERNEL-METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (T)> #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION CLIM-BACKEND:PORT-FRAME-KEYBOARD-INPUT-FOCUS #x8A8156E>) 1: (#<STANDARD-METHOD CLIM:STREAM-SET-INPUT-FOCUS (CLIM:CLIM-STREAM-PANE)> #<CLIM-DEMO::ADDRESS-BOOK #x9348EBE>) 2: (#<STANDARD-METHOD CLIM:RUN-FRAME-TOP-LEVEL :AROUND (CLIM:APPLICATION-FRAME)> #<CLIM-DEMO::ADDRESS-BOOK #x9348EBE>) 3: (CCL::%%STANDARD-COMBINED-METHOD-DCODE #<CONNECTION #x844548E> #<TWO-WAY-STREAM input #<SWANK-BACKEND::SLIME-INPUT-STREAM #x844339E>, output #<SWANK-BACKEND::SLIME-OUTPUT-STREAM #x8445416> #x8443286>) 4: (ADDRESS-BOOK) 5: (CCL::CALL-CHECK-REGS 'ADDRESS-BOOK) 6: (#<Anonymous Function #x840A1A6> "(address-book) ") 7: (SWANK::CALL-WITH-BUFFER-SYNTAX #<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9348F7E>) 8: (CCL::CALL-CHECK-REGS 'SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL) 9: (#<Anonymous Function #x840AE26> '(SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL "(address-book) ") 30 'NIL) 10: (#<Anonymous Function #x83A1D26> #<Compiled-function SWANK:SWANK-DEBUGGER-HOOK #x841AF46> #<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9348F9E>) 11: (FUNCALL 'SWANK::EVAL-FOR-EMACS) 12: (#<Anonymous Function #x83F0CE6>) 13: (#<Anonymous Function #x83A1D26> #<Compiled-function SWANK:SWANK-DEBUGGER-HOOK #x841AF46> #<Anonymous Function #x83F0CE6>) 14: (SWANK::CALL-WITH-REDIRECTED-IO #<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9348FBE> 'NIL) 15: (SWANK::CALL-WITH-CONNECTION #<CONNECTION #x844548E> #<Anonymous Function #x83F0CE6>) 16: (SWANK::HANDLE-REQUEST #<CONNECTION #x844548E>) 17: (SWANK::CALL-WITH-BINDINGS 'NIL #<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9348FD6>) 18: (CCL::RUN-PROCESS-INITIAL-FORM '(#<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9341CFE>) #<PROCESS worker(33) [Active] #x9341D36>) 19: (#<Anonymous Function #x80D0DFE> '(#<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x9341CFE>) 0) 20: (#<Anonymous Function #x80C3956> 791992 #<LISP-THREAD worker [tcr @ #x3056E0] #x9341E2E>)
------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #@ defun #. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)