right click on the body of the terminal and select edit current profile... alternativly of course you can create a launcher for xterm on the gnome bar or desktop if you so desire... I tend to use both xterm and gnome-terminal actually. joelja On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, javac javac wrote: > in the past i've done things like "xterm -bgcolor black ..." to configure my own terminal. however, how do i change the settings for the default terminal, please? > > > thanks, > > javac at mail dot com > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2