> Thanks, James, that did the trick. So now I have set up two desktops, > one a vanilla xterm and the other specifically for this purpose, runs > my script in a gnome-terminal and it appears to be working properly, > no funky pop-ups or anything. Thanks again for your help! Glad you got it working Miranda. A silly side-question... Would a regular ol' text console have done what was needed? CTRL-ALT-F1... Did your users need the real-estate of an X based terminal in the recovery console? -- Nate Duehr denverpilot@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos