On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:04PM -0500, Jared Burns wrote: > On the suggestion of someone on a bulletin board, I added > "PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin" to the top of my startx script and that got me further That's part of your problem. You clobbered your old path. Try PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin instead. > sh: cat: command not found > /etc/X11/Xsession: exec: sh: not found See? You lost your old path, and startx couldn't find simple commands that it needs. I don't know anything about Quake, and very little about X, but I know a bad path statement when I see one... :) Hope this helps. Dan