I have been keeping up with the Fedora Releases since FC1 and I have noticed that in FC1,2,3 Gnome is very sluggish compared to RH9.0. Things like opening a terminal can take 10 - 15 seconds. Running Programs take just as long. It's kinda hard to convince Windows XP users they need to move, when GNOME is performing poorly. Is this an issue noticed by all? Or is this for the GNOME community to address. Is it an issue of optimizing my system? I'm running a 2GHz Pentium 4 with 384Meg of Ram. I'm running 1600x1200 24b with the standard Bluecurve theme. Any Ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- Robert F. Chapman SMTE - Test Systems Development Maxim Integrated Products Email - Robert_Chapman@xxxxxxxxxxx