On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:29, James Lawrence wrote: > last night i changed the way my icons are arranged in nautilus. when i > logged out, i check "save current set up" Actually, that "save current set up" concerns session management, not your desktop preferences which should be saved immediately when you change them. > when i logged back in this > morning, they were back to the old way. what gives? Sorry, I'm not sure. Perhaps something wrong with gconf? > another thing, > if i type in : rpm -qa | sort -o ~/rpmlist1.txt this should output a > txt file with all my rpms on my machine. it doesn't do it any ideas? Shouldn't that be: rpm -qa | sort -o > ~/rpmlist1.txt Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================