Michael, > until the mouse enters the Tkinter window *or* the window receives keyboard > focus
Does adding a widget (any widget) that receives keyboard focus to your root form fix this problem? What if you explicitly set focus to this control after you create your root window? I'm not on a Linux box at the moment so I can't test these ideas for you. Malcolm _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss