diff --git a/src/backends/glvisualize.jl b/src/backends/glvisualize.jl
index ec11607c..82d60fcf 100644
--- a/src/backends/glvisualize.jl
+++ b/src/backends/glvisualize.jl
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ end
 
 immutable GLScreenWrapper
     window
-    render
 end
 
 function _create_plot(pkg::GLVisualizePackage; kw...)
@@ -22,11 +21,9 @@ function _create_plot(pkg::GLVisualizePackage; kw...)
   # TODO: initialize the plot... title, xlabel, bgcolor, etc
 
   # TODO: this should be moved to the display method?
-  w,r=GLVisualize.glscreen()
-  @async r()
-  o = GLScreenWrapper(w,r)
-
-  Plot(o, pkg, 0, d, Dict[])
+  w=GLVisualize.glscreen()
+  @async GLVisualize.renderloop(w)
+  Plot(GLScreenWrapper(w), pkg, 0, d, Dict[])
 end
 
 
@@ -34,12 +31,9 @@ function _add_series(::GLVisualizePackage, plt::Plot; kw...)
   d = Dict(kw)
   # TODO: add one series to the underlying package
   push!(plt.seriesargs, d)
-
   # TODO: this should be moved to the display method?
-  x, y, z = map(Float32, d[:x]), map(Float32, d[:y]), map(Float32, d[:z].surf)
-  viz = GLVisualize.visualize(x*ones(y)', ones(x)*y', z, :surface)
-  GLVisualize.view(viz)
-
+  x,y,z=map(Float32,d[:x]), map(Float32,d[:y]), map(Float32,d[:z].surf)
+  GLVisualize.view(GLVisualize.visualize((x*ones(y)', ones(x)*y', z), :surface),plt.o.window)
   plt
 end
 
diff --git a/src/backends/supported.jl b/src/backends/supported.jl
index f9ef2cba..0ba5ff49 100644
--- a/src/backends/supported.jl
+++ b/src/backends/supported.jl
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ supportedArgs(::GLVisualizePackage) = [
     # :legend,
     # :linecolor,
     # :linestyle,
-    # :linetype,
+     :linetype
     # :linewidth,
     # :linealpha,
     # :markershape,
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ supportedArgs(::GLVisualizePackage) = [
     # :levels,
   ]
 supportedAxes(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:auto, :left]
-supportedTypes(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:contour] #, :path, :scatter ,:steppre, :steppost, :sticks, :hist2d, :hexbin, :hist, :bar, :hline, :vline, :contour]
+supportedTypes(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:surface] #, :path, :scatter ,:steppre, :steppost, :sticks, :heatmap, :hexbin, :hist, :bar, :hline, :vline, :contour]
 supportedStyles(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:auto, :solid] #, :dash, :dot, :dashdot, :dashdotdot]
 supportedMarkers(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:none, :auto, :ellipse] #, :rect, :diamond, :utriangle, :dtriangle, :cross, :xcross, :star5] #vcat(_allMarkers, Shape)
 supportedScales(::GLVisualizePackage) = [:identity] #, :log, :log2, :log10, :asinh, :sqrt]