Hi Xmonadists I am a long-time fan of the -- unfortunately no longer maintained -- text editor that goes by the name of 'nedit'. Nedit is built on the Motif toolkit. Nedit can be run in client mode (the executable is named 'nc' in this case, for nedit client, on debian and some other systems called 'nedit-nc') meaning that it attaches to a running instance of nedit. If given the extra switch -tabbed, it will open another tab inside an already open nedit server session. Depending on a configuration setting, it starts a new server if none is found. A few xmonad-versions ago 'nedit-nc -tabbed' suddenly stopped working. Instead of opening the file as a new tab inside the running session, a new window is opened. If no session is already running, I get _two_ windows, one with the file I specified (on the command line) and one with a new file ('untitled'), which is quite annoying, especially in a tiling wm such as xmonad. There is, by the way, only one nedit-server session running, so the client mode works in principle, only the -tabbed mode is broken. This works fine under all other window managers I tried, including those of gnome, kde, xfce, and lxde. I tried anything I could think of to fix possible problems with my configuration but to no avail. I gave up then and went back to using kde when programming. But I am missing xmonad very much and would really like to go back to using it, so I finally decided to report this as a bug. I think the nedit client mode utilizes some X11 feature for communicating between processes over the X11 protocol, but I have no intimate knowledge of X11, so I can't tell for sure. BTW, most linux distributions still offer nedit as a package, if yours does not the latest sources (from 2005) are available from the nedit.org site. I would be extremely happy and thankful if someone finds a solution for this problem so I could again use my favourite window manager *and* my favourite text editor together. BTW, I am currently on a 64 bit amd running debian testing. Cheers Ben