Michael, Andrei & others, mp> Well before blaming permissions have you checked your disk space?
ap> 'df -h' will give you a nice summary with all filesystems. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 2.2G 1.6G 453M 78% / tmpfs 63M 0 63M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 64K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 63M 8.0K 63M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda4 384M 181M 183M 50% /home Disk space appears to be ample. There is no problem when Xfce4 is used rather than tightvnc. I wonder whether it was a conflict between the two. I've lost interest in the problem for now. If I return to tightvnc, will notice whether the problem surfaces again. Thanks for the ideas, ... Peter Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]