Heads up, I just found a trivial bug in dbus-launch.c, if compiled without X11 (DBUS_BUILD_X11 not defined). On or about line 969, xdisplay is set to null - but it's not ifdef'd out #ifdef DBUS_BUILD_X11 <<<< add if def! xdisplay = NULL; #endif I'm just switching over to 1.1.20. - Dave