Kent Sibilev wrote: > It seems it doesn't matter whether it's a console or a window app, it > fails either way: > > rubyw fxri > > I've just downloaded one of the mswin32 builds from ruby-lang.org and > it works correctly. Ok, that a very good indication that the problem is in the build of rubyw.exe (I was thinking it was some weird interaction between my build of rubyw and FXRuby). This should help narrow things down. Thanks, Curt