Comment 4 for bug 1190160

hotot{,-common,-gtk} 1:0.9.8.5+git20120630.884797d-1 in gnome-shell on 13.04, all updates. Was working fine for months. Recently it started showing a blank grey window for the main display and all secondary windows (preferences, about); the status icon still works.

I tried

sudo apt-get purge hotot{,-common,-gtk}
rm -rf ~/.{config,cache}/hotot
sudo apt-get install hotot
hotot

This showed the introductory screen as usual. I enter my Twitter handle and press the big arrow. Again the screen goes blank grey. No messages on stderr, Ctrl-C shows only

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hotot", line 14, in <module>
    hotot.hotot.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hotot/hotot.py", line 403, in main
    gtk.main()
KeyboardInterrupt