On Sep 5, 2008, at 11:41, James B. Byrne wrote: > Can somebody tell me how to get these minor, but for me very > desirable, > changes made to the second system? The only difference between the > two > systems that I can recall is that one (the first) was upgraded from > 4.6 > while the second (the more limited unit) was a clean install. Does this happen for all users? Do the two accounts that exhibit the different behaviors have separate home directories? If so, rename (or delete) all the Gnome configuration directories (e.g., ~/.g*) in the user's home directory and try again. Or log in as a newly created user that doesn't have any Gnome configuration directories and see if the behavior changes. Alfred