Jaume, You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white insertion rectangle should have been solid, I suspect.
I have a ~/.xsession-errors file, and when I press any key I get: xterm: fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" Does this mean that in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 my keyboard is not properly configured? If so, would that have appeared to icewm as a bad option? Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]