Hi In order to simplify administration of several machines, I use a very simple script to fire off a gnome terminal on the remote machine. On my desktop I run slogin -f -l root 127.0.0.1 gnome-terminal On FC-1 this worked fine, but I recently upgraded my desktop to FC3 and I get the following when I try to fire off a root window on this desktop machine (hence the 127.0.0.1)... The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'. (Details: serial 71 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I have got round the problem temporarily by using xterm instead of gnome-terminal, but this seriously reduces the functionality of the arrangement (eg cut/paste doesn't work). Is there a way round this issue???