On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I am using testing on Gateway. I get the strange behavior of X where > I can login as root with xdm, but as a regular user the the window is > closed immediately and the login prompt appears again. Do you happen to have /tmp only writable by root? It should read/writable by all. Oki ps: it was the case when I used gdm.