D, no problem at all, and no need for apologies. It's my first serious look at Rosegarden, and i've been impressed with what i've seen so far. The 1.5.1 was a bit problematic, but this latest release is a big step forward. Well done and thanks to you and the team. I do this full time, (writing classical music) so any foray i make into software tends to be in depth, and specific to what i'm trying to achieve. I've located the horizontal zoom easily enough, and yes, it was vertical i was chasing. It's early days yet, and just maybe after getting the grid designations assigned to Numpad KC's, and step inputting, i just might be alright anyway. After all, no programme is all things to all users. Percentages, lol. I've yet to find the backgrounds, but i'll have a fishing expedition through the rose files and see which path i'm supposed to look in. (I'm still new at linux.) Thanks for the input. Regards, Alex Stone. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2008 1:56 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <<a href="mailto:michael.mcintyre@rosegardenmusic.com">michael.mcintyre@rosegardenmusic.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Wednesday 09 January 2008, alex stone wrote: > But try as i might, i can't find out how to zoom the matrix editor, </div>It only zooms horizontally.  Looking at my working copy, I notice the zoom slider in the matrix doesn't have a label for some reason.  It just has the little slider widget with no explanation beside it.  Odd.  Could that be the case for you too, and you just missed it, or were you looking to zoom vertically?  I'm afraid there's some horrible technical reason why we can't zoom vertically yet.  I think QT4 will eventually fix that, but that port is at least a year in the future. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > or > change the background colours in the ME and Main window to something > less........white. </div>The backgrounds are hard coded, and your only choices are white, or the textured background. Glad it's working for you otherwise, and sorry about the inconvenience here. -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users </a> </blockquote></div>