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@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ class XrayEyeAlign:
                it is hard to locate the sample between rotations.  The caller
                is responsible for closing the shutter afterwards.
        """
+        # self.gui is lamni.xeyegui, which is None until the widget has been
+        # opened at least once -- unlike align()/find_rotation_center(), this
+        # is often the first X-ray-eye call of a session (see leye_in()), so
+        # it must open the widget itself rather than assume it already exists.
+        if self.gui is None:
+            self.lamni.lamnigui_show_xeyealign()
        if not dev.cam_xeye.live_mode_enabled.get():
            dev.cam_xeye.live_mode_enabled.put(True)
        self.gui.on_live_view_enabled(True)