one problem with having ANSI graphics display properly is with the UTF fonts used in RedHat linux since version 8. Many console programs won't display properly like this, the solution i've used for this is to change the /etc/sysconfig/i18n to remove the references to UTF, something like this: LANG="en_CA" SUPPORTED="en_CA:en:en_US:en" SYSFONT="lat0-sun16" SYSFONTACM="iso15" hope this helps with the Xterm question.. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml