To hopefully allay any fears, here: > any title command in .Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN will be executed > with rootprivileges: As I've already responded, this is not true. balmeida@terminus [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt ls: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory In the MAIN file: title `touch /tmp/foo.txt` After running Eterm: balmeida@terminus [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 balmeida balmeida 0 Feb 18 14:17 /tmp/foo.txt