> why not just > startx -- +xinerama yep. tried that too. was working at first. > and if you want it the default alias your startx > > alias startx 'startx -- +xinerama' it's not a matter of making it *work* (got that done.. cheated and made XFree86 SUID root); I want to find out how it's supposed to work. :) of course, I sometimes wonder if the X people themselves know how it's supposed to work. :) Carl. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700