Russell Neches <russell@ccs.neu.edu> writes: > Hey there -- Hi, [...] > What causes this? To whom should I express my grouchyness? How might it > be fixed? I don't know who is responsible for this feature, but telling xrdb to load (instead of merging) users Xresources solve this problem. In /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome line 124 replace -merge by -load Christian