On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:11 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there, somewhere, an entry-level writeup that starts with the > basics and takes off to cover all of this up to the current advanced > stuff? thanks. The X.org site has a fairly good explanation on how X works. That should help your friends out some. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 i686 GNU/Linux 13:34:24 up 11 days, 8:02, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.20, 0.12