in reply to forking in Tk and letting the dad alone deal with X stuff

I always pre-fork before handling Tk stuff. When using my TK Progress dialog class, I don't enter the MainLoop until ...

Wait a sec. When are you forking? From inside a button handler or something? If you're not forking before MainLoop there shouldn't be an issue, not in my experience anyway.

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