On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:16:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > found 502976 0.98.3-4 > found 502976 0.98.1-1+lenny3 > thank you > > i just tested the version in testing-proposed-updates. the problem > does exist there as well. Could you please try adding this to ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc: backend : GTKAgg Thanks. Kumar