> That howto is doing things The Wrong Way though. You should not need to > edit startx. *cough* Not editing scripts directly if you don't need to > is a good habit to get into if you use any kind of package managment > system... > > Read startx's man page. It starts the x server via xinit. Read xinit's > man page. It looks for a file called .xserverrc, just put the command > line to start the X server in there. > > X +xinerama yep. all that has indeed occurred to me. However, as I believe I mentioned in my first post; it seems that the X server binary needs to be SUID root in order for the .xserverrc file to work. (which it's not, in X4). of course, it's quite possible I'm wrong. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700