diff --git a/mseedpeek/mseedpeek.py b/mseedpeek/mseedpeek.py
index 0112f2d1c891c3b355b830ef61ecedccbe966df3..613ac0cde2eb53bc9f8a23302f07baa80e03a0ce 100644
--- a/mseedpeek/mseedpeek.py
+++ b/mseedpeek/mseedpeek.py
@@ -719,7 +719,6 @@ class MainWindow(QWidget):
                 self.slider_box.hide()
             else:
                 self.slider_box.show()
-                self.slider_box.show()
         self.maybe_read_hdrs()
 
     def clicked_find(self):
@@ -793,6 +792,7 @@ class MainWindow(QWidget):
             self.blktype_box.hide()
             self.blkinfo_box.hide()
             self.blk_vars_box.hide()
+            self.slider_box.hide()
         else:
             widget = self.jump_box.currentWidget()
             for child in widget.findChildren(QWidget):
@@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ class MainWindow(QWidget):
         self.hide_show("show")
         self.header_endianess_text.setText(self.byte_order)
         self.jump_box.setCurrentIndex(self.verb_var)
+        self.jump_box.show()
         self.update_infobar("", "yellow")
 
         # hack, widget was behaving weird for some reason