Hi! I fear this is a faq. It is said that ssh tunnels the x-connection and that all you have to do is: To login with % ssh -X -l username host % password and type % xterm Nothing about removing -nolisten tcp in xserverrc and so on. But when I do it, I get the error cannot open display I have the default settings in the ssh-configs on woody. Ciao! juh -- Der Nikolaus auf dem Tankstellendach http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991206.html