Or for a one step solution, assuming you have the ImageMagick package (RedHat should come with it, it's needed to run Enlightenment I believe), you can just do import -window root <filename>.<format> where <format> is any one of ImageMagick's myriad of supported formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and so on. -- Tobyn "trb" Baugher <trb at cartoonviolence.net> http://www.cartoonviolence.net AIM:unlewp ICQ:14281524 EFnet:trb