D. D. Brierton wrote: > Maybe someone can help both of us out. If it is any help, I can > definitely confirm that GNOME Terminal behaves properly for me if I'm > logged in as root or a completely freshly created normal user account. You say it's a new install. But have you brought your home directory over from a previous install? Try moving your .gconf* directories and your .gnome* directories (so programs that expect them can't find them), log out, then log back in again. James. -- James Wilkinson | 'Defenestrate' means 'through / out' the window. Does Exeter Devon UK | not refer to people, necessarily. Therefore the E-mail address: james | 'Defenestration of Prague' probably required a pretty @westexe.demon.co.uk | freaking big window. -- Randy the Random