I think I'm asking the wrong questions here. First, the PDF printing problem was solved, more or less, by changing the settings on my printer to emulate the HP Laserjet 4 (using the Minolta PPD), so far. As for the app behavior problem, I think it is a permissions problem on some configuration file somewhere, only I don't know what or where. If I run as root, everything works fine. It's only as a normal user that I get problems, so I'm wondering, where the settings are kept for gnome apps, particularly nautilus, since that seems to be the #1 place where I run into trouble. ( I had my root umask set to 027 for a while for security reasons, but there are better reasons not to, and this may have screwed up a fair number of my updates. I have fixed this so that it is only set to 027 when I am running interactively and 022 when running rpm or yum, or non-interactively. ) Thanks. mhr _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list