On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote: > LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do some > browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines so being > able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must. And what's wrong with startx? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)