Samuel, wrote: SM> Well this is due to the fact that RH8 is now using UTF-8 as a system SM> wide charset. Certain apps will not work properly if you do not change SM> the charset back to something simpler, acroread or easyTAG to name two. SM> You can either use SM> $ env LANG=C <your command> SM> or change the system-wide setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. For me, the SM> first line of this file was LANG="en_GB.UTF-8". I changed it to SM> LANG="en_GB" and rebooted and things are much better (for me anyway). SM> although mc still seems to play up with kinsole, I am not quite shure SM> why, but at least most other apps work fine and konsole is actually SM> "usable" (I had reverted to xterm before I changed this setting). That was the problem! Thanks! Everything is working fine now! Arne Brutschy -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list