On 6/25/05, mal <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for that ..but I think I'm being really thick here > > what exactly did you do to esd.conf > > :-) > > thanks > > mal Hi Mal, There should be a line something like: spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 The above is from an FC3 machine as I'm not in FC4 right now. But just append " -b" to the end like so: spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -b That should do it. Log out of Gnome and back in for the changes to take effect. I would think that you ought to be able to use the "default_options" line but that didn't seem to work for me when I tried it. Using the "spawn_options" does work (at least for me). Jonathan