Alain Spineux wrote: By any chance are you doing this because your X session has stopped responding? The X server may have died, possibly due to driver issues. You don't say what release and kernel you run, there have been some recent FC11 upgrades which seem to help on other hardware. You can do a ps command with X working and not working to see if the server has died. Someone can probably tell you how to restart it (other than reboot), my method makes people cringe and I won't share it, or even admit I do it. :-( A possibility, since you are inviting guesses by lack of detail in the question. -- bill davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt; CTO TMR Associates, Inc "Now we have another quarterback besides Kurt Warner telling us during postgame interviews that he owes every great thing that happens to him on a football field to his faith in Jesus. I knew there had to be a reason why the Almighty included a mute button on my remote." -- Arthur Troyer on Tim Tebow (Sports Illustrated)

Alain Spineux wrote: If you are talking about the cli display, you can try running the reset command. (It works in [xgk]term as well.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!