Also remember to hit return after you've used say alt-f2 or alt-f1, that tells the system you want to login if you've not done so already. Once you've logged in and switch between logged in tasks it's not necessary to hit return hater switching screens. Your default when you power up is alt-f1. Something else, you don't need to use alt-f2 to move to screen 2 if you don't want to. You can use ctty 2 or ctty 3 or ctty 1 on the command line and do the same thing. -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>