Looks like it's not window-manager specific. rm'd ~/.gitk, then launched it twice -- it showed up on: Enlightenment 0.16.7.2-1 flwm 1.00-7 wm2 4-8 fluxbox 0.9.11-1sarge0 metacity 2.8.8-1 vtwm 5.4.6b-1 ctwm 3.6-2 twm 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 ion3 20050502-2 If anyone has ideas or requests for more info, let me know. *starts to read up on Tk* -- DN Daniel - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html