There are more appropriate lists to ask this question, I know, but if someone has the answer at his/her fingertips, I would appreciate a hint. I have retrieved the latest garnome and configured it, then began: make paranoia_install in the desktop directory. The initial set of downloads went fine, the destination directories were created and partially populated, but then the first compile was attempted, and the configuration step failed when it said it needed X, but it could not be found or was not configured correctly. The "which X" command tells me it is in /usr/bin, and I have already been successfully using X as it is currently configured. I am running a Debian unstable system and have just uninstalled the Debian gnome related packages in order to obtain gnome 2.16.1 through garnome, instead of the 2.14 that Debian currently packages. But it can't find X, or it has a problem with X. Anybody know how to get around this one? Thanks, Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (31% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh