Sorry, found the answer: Sven Opitz <S.Opitz@gmx.de> wrote in news:a9f57u$jig$1@main.gmane.org: > I tried XWin 0 1280 1024 -query ipaddress, but that didn't work at all I changed this line to XWin -screen 0 1280 1024 -query ipaddress Thanx anyway Sven