OOOOPPPPPPPSSSS!!!!!! <egg on face> <looking for towell> I send appologies to all! After further digging I found that things were not broken by X but by the ssh-agent. I'm not sure why things are messed up there but after removing the use-ssh-agent line from Xsession.options life went back to NORMAL. Please pardon the jumping the gun! J.R. -- J.R. Westmoreland (W7JR) E-mail: jr@jrw.org