whoops! I should have that commented out. Edit ascp.h and comment out line 49. I'm currently trying to see how I can use imlib to load and display pixmaps (the default GTK+ image handler code is rather slow in comparison). Please ignore that :-) Nwanua. -- WWW: http://www.afterstep.org/ FTP: ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/ MAIL: http://www.caldera.com/linuxcenter/forums/afterstep.html