diff --git a/doGui.go b/doGui.go
index 24ec444..de7fd96 100644
--- a/doGui.go
+++ b/doGui.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"go.wit.com/gui"
-	"go.wit.com/lib/fhelp"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gadgets"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/shell"
 	"go.wit.com/log"
@@ -33,26 +32,6 @@ func debug() {
 }
 
 func doGui() {
-	if me.forge.Config.GetDefaultGui() == "" {
-		me.forge.Config.DefaultGui = "gocui"
-		me.forge.ConfigSave()
-	}
-	me.myGui = gui.New()
-	me.myGui.InitEmbed(resources)
-	me.myGui.SetAppDefaultPlugin(me.forge.Config.DefaultGui) // sets the default GUI plugin to use
-	if pname, err := me.myGui.Default(); err != nil {
-		if !fhelp.BuildPlugin("gocui") {
-			log.Info("You can't run the forge GUI since the plugins did not build", pname)
-			okExit("")
-		} else {
-			if err := me.myGui.LoadToolkitNew("gocui"); err != nil {
-				log.Info("The plugins built, but still failed to load", pname)
-				badExit(err)
-			}
-			log.Info("The plugins built and loaded!", pname)
-		}
-	}
-
 	mainWindow := gadgets.NewGenericWindow("forged: forge.wit.com", "Current Settings")
 	mainWindow.Custom = func() {
 		log.Warn("MAIN WINDOW CLOSE")
@@ -61,9 +40,6 @@ func doGui() {
 		okExit("")
 	}
 	drawWindow(mainWindow)
-
-	// sits here forever
-	debug()
 }
 
 func drawWindow(win *gadgets.GenericWindow) {
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index f883dbf..3d601a5 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ func main() {
 
 	if argv.Daemon == true {
 		if argv.Gui != nil {
-			go doGui()
+			me.myGui.Start() // loads the GUI toolkit
+			doGui()          // start making our forge GUI
+			debug()          // sits here forever
 		}
 		mux := http.NewServeMux()
 		okHandlerFunc := http.HandlerFunc(okHandler)
diff --git a/structs.go b/structs.go
index a1f812c..d0c5e30 100644
--- a/structs.go
+++ b/structs.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"go.wit.com/dev/alexflint/arg"
-	"go.wit.com/gui"
+	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/prep"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb"
 )
 
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ var me *mainType
 type mainType struct {
 	pp    *arg.Parser    // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
 	forge *forgepb.Forge // for holding the forge protobuf files
-	myGui *gui.Node      // the gui toolkit handle
+	myGui *prep.GuiPrep  // the gui toolkit handle
 }