Looking at selection.c, I think I notice that there is some dead code in there. As USE_XDRAWPOINTS is #defined (and apparently always has been?), the gc_in field (GdkGC*) in GSelection structs doesn't seem to be actually used for anything. It is created, and various attributes of it are set, but the only place where it would be used is in the #else part of an #ifdef USE_XDRAWPOINTS. --tml
