The Apple of Discord is taking a break while I come up with new and
interesting stuff. In the meantime, I STRONGLY recommend you check out my
Fantasy Parody Epic, Apple Valley and my brand new 5-day a week humorous
expose of the dark underbelly of the Webcomic world, Webcomic Hell.
I think the linux version of that program that I use has -xv stuck on.
It’s a fairly common problem… are you logged in as a regular user or an admin?