Christopher Keller wrote: >yeah, that was what I ended up doing. I couldn't actually get it to work >as part of GDM/X start process. I'm sure it's my lack of understanding >on how the process works. > I don't remember. Did you try changing the servers section of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf ? something like this: [servers] 0= nice -20 /usr/bin/X11/X -Thomas