Hi Ben, (Sorry for this out of thread post. At least it is not the html that comes with my netmail account.) > Did you exit and restart X? I did not only restart X, I restarted the whole box. Problem seems to be that the /etc/profile settings do not reflect on the X session, only on the shells inside it. So, the question remains, how do I enable core dumps in X, so I can debug these gnome-terminal crashes? Bye, Leonard.