Hello again, I've found a recipe for emacs -Q, though, you need to load one of my private files. It's attached. It causes an outline of the currently displayed frames and windows printed in the echo area whenever a window is selected. AFAIK, this code wasn't related with every hang, but with lots. The crucial part seems to be the `message' call printing the table in the echo area. So, the recipe is: load the attached file, open a shell buffer (M-x shell), and C-x 5 2. Also selecting a different frame works. M-: (fracy-display-frame-list) seems to already suffice as recipe. Thanks, Michael.