Hi Brian, > - make the 'gradient' option actually do something (does anyone have > pointers to any info for how to do this using nothing more than > gtk/gdk/xlib?) [low prio, ??? diff] You may take a look at xfce3 code, I did write it for xfce3 years ago. I think its in xpmext.c in the libs dir IIRC. Cheers, Olivier.