>A last possibility, after that I'm out of my wits: > >At the shell prompt, do you get the same answer to > > which vim > which gvim > >when logged in as steve and as root?
I do get the same answer: /usr/bin/vim and /usr/bin/gvim But you inspired me to look around for other gvim related files. I found ~/.gnome2/Vim. On my user account, the file contains: [Placement] Dock=Toolbar\\0,0,0,0\\Menubar\\0,0,0,0 and my root account has: [Placement] Dock=Toolbar\\0,1,0,0\\Menubar\\0,0,0,0 I manually edited that file to be the same as the version in /root/.gnome2/Vim and now everything works. I have no idea what that file is or what could have changed it. Regardless I'm back in action again. Thank you for all your help. -sc ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news