Blast it all, digging like a tick in the www.k3b.org mailing lists did find it, "remove ~/.k3b/share/config/k3brc" Sure enough, now the project window is showing up as a part of the main k3b window, just like the screenshots. Hope this can help the next person with this problem. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history