> 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. How things are set up on a RH7 system: cal at bigtime:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/ |grep X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Sep 28 13:56 X -> Xwrapper -rwx--x--x 1 root root 1538632 Aug 30 14:55 XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27499 Aug 30 14:54 Xmark -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2321432 Aug 30 14:55 Xprt -rws--x--x 1 root root 6024 Aug 30 14:55 Xwrapper X is a symlink to Xwrapper which is suid. I think its a redhat securityism though. I'm pretty sure it was with XFree 3.3.x... How did you install X? Reinsall the package, or verify the package or something if you want to be sure. Or just set XFree86 SUID. :P