Hello, There's a bug in the startx script Mandrake is shipping with its XFree86-4. The xinit line is : xinit $clientargs -- $display $serverargs 1) $display gets set to 0 on line 30, and then never gets set to anything else (the case "$1" in /''*|\.*) is never entered for something like startx -- :1 ) 2) $serverargs picks up the :1 Therefore startx -- :1 becomes xinit /home/owen/.xinitrc :0 :1 /home/owen/.Xauthority which is pretty duff really. I am sorry it took me so long to sort this one. Too much ranting perhaps ;-) Owen
