I've put up a new video resource manager RPM that fixes the lingering-startup-file bug. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/Linux/RPMS/ag-vrm-1.02-1.i386 .rpm See http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/ag-tech/msg00115.html for more on the vrm. --bob