> That sounds like one of the problems I worked around in xterm. > If the update is not using all of the information, it will modify > an obsolete entry in utmp. I don't have xterm on my system, only gnome-terminal. The timestamp of my utmp file is not updated, thus no entry is updated, either good or obsolete... I found that gdm uses the "sessreg" command to update the utmp file, maybe it is in cause ? Vincent.