Hi, I looked at knotify code and see this line: notifybyexecute.cpp //TODO fixme on WIN32 QProcess::startDetached( "/bin/sh", QStringList() << "-c" << execLine ); Could you look at it please ? Thanks Regards. -- Laurent Montel, KDE/KOffice developer, Qt consultancy projects Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions