Hi! My email add is crisc@xxxxxxxxx Im new to the X window Programming world, im starting with creating a simple window. One of the parameter XcreateSimpleWindow function is the border thickness and border color. How do I specify that? Ex: Int win_border_width; Int win_border_color; win_border_width=2; win_border_color=5; now for ex im starting to create a wiondow like this: /* create the window, as specified earlier. */ win = XCreateSimpleWindow(display, RootWindow(display, screen_num), win_x, win_y, win_width, win_height, win_border_width, BlackPixel(display, screen_num), win_botder_color, WhitePixel(display, screen_num)); Is this correct? I want Black as my background color. Please help me. Regards, Tina