Ummm... Nope, I sure didn't. :) I installed Fink and everything else as root, so I had to change the permissions in order to write to it. I just assumed it was something in the .xinitrc file. Thanks for the hint. On the other hand, KDE seems to crash continually while being run from X11. I am running the 3.1 beta compiled from source using Fink. Have you or anyone else had better experience with it? Minimizing a window crashes it every time. It would be fun to be able to use sometimes, although I prefer a "lighter" WM.