On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:04:02AM -0600, hbrhodes wrote: >> i normally start them by right clicking on the desktop and selecting >> "Open Terminal" (First, I'll second the request someone else made in another thread, that you quote a bit of context.) Hm. Maybe the first question should be "are you sure it's xterm you're using, and not another terminal emulator?" If you're right-clicking the desktop in GNOME, then unless you've done something to change things, you're probably getting GNOME's terminal emulator rather than xterm. Experiment suggests that you can start it from the command line with a size other than the default by typing gnome-terminal --geometry=100x25 No idea how you make that happen when you right-click the desktop. Maybe someone else can help there. -- -- blm