Mark Farmer wrote: > Can anyone tell me why sometimes when I open a new tab in Gnome terminal it > is black? Just as if I had highlighted the whole terminal with the mouse - > in fact I use ctrl+shift+t and dont even have hold of the mouse when the > tab opens. I then have to click the mouse in the new tab 3 times to get it > to turn white. This is a known bug that's been fixed recently. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420. Apparently there's a patch that fixes it, that was applied to the "rawhide" development version yesterday. Whether that means it will get into FC3, or whether there's an update coming, I don't know. James. -- E-mail address: james | Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Vint Cerf