arhinox has been having troubles with his Gnome terminal. Can you try creating a temporary test user, log on as that user, and see if you still have the problem? Thanks, James. -- E-mail address: james | 'In a serial interface, the data bits move down a @westexe.demon.co.uk | single channel one after the other, like railway | trains. This is different from the parallel interface | in which groups of bits arrive together, like London | buses.' -- 'The Computer Dictionary', Jon Wedge