diff --git a/WPrefs.app/Appearance.c b/WPrefs.app/Appearance.c
index 106a306a..9107514d 100644
--- a/WPrefs.app/Appearance.c
+++ b/WPrefs.app/Appearance.c
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ static Pixmap renderTexture(WMScreen * scr, WMPropList * texture, int width, int
 		int style;
 		RColor rcolor2;
 		int i;
-		RImage *grad, *timage;
+		RImage *grad, *timage = NULL;
 		char *path;
 
 		switch (toupper(type[1])) {
diff --git a/WPrefs.app/Paths.c b/WPrefs.app/Paths.c
index ca1b353a..dcffd537 100644
--- a/WPrefs.app/Paths.c
+++ b/WPrefs.app/Paths.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 #include "WPrefs.h"
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <assert.h>
 
 typedef struct _Panel {
 	WMBox *box;
@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ static void browseForFile(WMWidget * w, void *data)
 	_Panel *panel = (_Panel *) data;
 	WMFilePanel *filePanel;
 
+	assert(w == panel->icoaB || w == panel->pixaB);
+
 	filePanel = WMGetOpenPanel(WMWidgetScreen(w));
 
 	WMSetFilePanelCanChooseFiles(filePanel, False);
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ static void browseForFile(WMWidget * w, void *data)
 				len--;
 			}
 			if (len > 0) {
-				WMList *lPtr;
+				WMList *lPtr = NULL;
 				int i;
 
 				if (w == panel->icoaB)
diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c
index 7790edb9..b8810530 100644
--- a/src/misc.c
+++ b/src/misc.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ char *ShrinkString(WMFont * font, char *string, int width)
 
 char *FindImage(char *paths, char *file)
 {
-	char *tmp, *path;
+	char *tmp, *path = NULL;
 
 	tmp = strrchr(file, ':');
 	if (tmp) {
diff --git a/src/motif.c b/src/motif.c
index 3e9e5e9e..c371e389 100644
--- a/src/motif.c
+++ b/src/motif.c
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static int getMWMHints(Window window, MWMHints *mwmhints)
 	if (!data)
 		return 0;
 
+	mwmhints->flags = 0;
 	if (count >= 4) {
 		mwmhints->flags = data[0];
 		mwmhints->functions = data[1];
diff --git a/util/getstyle.c b/util/getstyle.c
index 1023c10b..577554b1 100644
--- a/util/getstyle.c
+++ b/util/getstyle.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static Bool isFontOption(char *option)
 /* XXX: is almost like WINGs/wcolodpanel.c:fetchFile() */
 void copyFile(char *dir, char *file)
 {
-	FILE *src, *dst;
+	FILE *src = NULL, *dst = NULL;
 	size_t nread, nwritten, len;
 	char buf[4096];
 	struct stat st;
@@ -230,7 +230,9 @@ void copyFile(char *dir, char *file)
 	RETRY( fclose(dst) )
 
 err:
-	RETRY( fclose(src) )
+	if (src) {
+		RETRY( fclose(src) )
+	}
 	wfree(dstpath);
 	return;
 }
diff --git a/util/wmsetbg.c b/util/wmsetbg.c
index cf4516fe..8f7638db 100644
--- a/util/wmsetbg.c
+++ b/util/wmsetbg.c
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ BackgroundTexture *parseTexture(RContext * rc, char *text)
 		XColor color;
 		Pixmap pixmap = None;
 		RImage *image = NULL;
-		int iwidth, iheight;
+		int iwidth = 0, iheight = 0;
 		RColor rcolor;
 
 		GETSTRORGOTO(val, tmp, 1, error);
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ void helperLoop(RContext * rc)
 	memset(textures, 0, WORKSPACE_COUNT * sizeof(BackgroundTexture *));
 
 	while (1) {
-		int workspace;
+		int workspace = -1;
 
 		/* get length of message */
 		if (readmsg(0, buffer, 4) < 0) {