From: newsspam@weilbacher.org   
      
   Arthur Hagen wrote:   
      
   > Gnome saves settings automatically, which is a boon and a curse.   
   >   
   > If your setting changes don't "take", this /could/ be due to having   
   > started a terminal while su'ed (or sudo'ed) to root, without a root   
   > login context.  This can cause files in the user's profile to be   
   > overwritten by root, and they then can no longer be changed by the user.   
   >   
   > To check for this in your home dir and the temporary gconf directories,   
   > as the (non-root) user, do:   
   > find ~ /tmp/*-`whoami` \! -user `whoami` -exec ls -ld {} \;   
      
   Interesting, that indeed found a few files (which I now fixed) but nothing   
   that had anything to do with GNOME.   
      
   I also played around with the terminal profile settings a bit and noticed   
   that all of them stick (stuff like blinking cursor and menubar on or off),   
   except the charset option. :-(   
      
      Peter.   
      
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