some how i managed to have 2 witter runing today. since then its not worked. i uninstalled ar reinstalled. it just kept crashing . so i uninstalled deleted .witter* reinstalled and now just sitting trying to load timeline so run as instructed and got ~ $ run-standalone.sh python2.5 /opt/witter/witter.py No config file, prompt for uid / pwd Failed to establish api for Twitter Failed to establish api for Twitter failed to read timeline file failed to read timeline file failed to read timeline file /opt/witter/ui/gtkWitter.py:77: GtkWarning: gtk_container_child_set_property: assertion `child->parent == GTK_WIDGET (container)' failed self.builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/witter/witter.ui") UI elements loaded from file signals connected to buttons Loading Theme Icons defining ui buttons define portrait keyboard objects define general window please help :-) craig