hi All, re-sending because it appears, by looking at the archives, that it didn't like my attachment. here's a link instead http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8770/screenshotxf.png. Please have a look at the screenshot attached. Whenever I launch a new a window, in this case a Swing one, gnome-terminal scrolls unnecessarily. It's very annoying. Xterm is fine, but I prefer to use gnome-terminal because of tabs. If anyone has come across and/or has fix, I'd appreciate if could forward it. please CC me on reply. —Mohamed