>I wanted to fork the tar process off by itself have it show in it's own window
>.
[ ... ]
>/* pid = fork();
> if(pid != 0){
> perror("We are in the child"); */
> gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
you can't do this. the parent and child cannot share access to the
same GTK/GDK/Xlib "connection". you have to use threads for that.
write your tar process as a separate program that uses GTK itself,
then fork-and-exec it.
--p
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