> Am I wrong ???? ... or Tkinter looks very ugly on Linux? Tk under *nix looks like Motif. Thus if you run the Motif Window Manager Tkinter apps will look like all the other apps on your desktop. If you run something else (and most folks do nowadays) they will look old fashioned and a bit "chunky". Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld