Jay Daniels said: >> Have you edited your gdm.conf? Is this a fresh install or an upgrade? >> What command was X started with (try "ps waux | grep X11")? > > I have changed gdm.conf. I boot into runlevel 3 and used startx & to > start X... Booting to runlevel 3 is different than runlevel 5 because the "-nolisten tcp" isn't passed (I don't think...). You should be able to get the same effect by doing: $ startx -- -nolisten tcp -- William Hooper