Hi. > But if you run GNOME the main window is completely > covered by a nautilus > window. On this window you can't draw afaik cause it > is owned by an > other process. Argh. XFCE4 also does not allow to draw on the root window, that's why my initial tests were not working. When I run your code and saw nothing there, I closed XFCE and started Fluxbox and all worked fine. The root window is owned by xfdesktop. Seems that I'll need to find another way to do that. :-) Thanks again for that tip! ---------------------------- EustáÒuio "TaQ" Rangel eustaquiorangel / yahoo.com http://beam.to/taq UsuáÓio GNU/Linux no. 224050