Thanks, Carl! I'll have a whack at your method #1 and see what happens. Might have a follow-up, since I'm still not entirely sure how the environment variable bindings will propagate correctly, if I set them in a shell script.... Method #2 won't work because I'm logging into to an xdm, so X runs before my shell.... I suppose I could give this up, but booting to rl 3 and starting x by hand is a bit of a PITB.... Cheers, R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list