On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:10 -0500, Todd Reed wrote: > Do I need an xserver running on my windows box? That may be my problem. If > so, could someone suggest one. I did a quick search and I found several > that you have to pay for. > > --Todd Yes. You need to running an X server. I believe that (gnu) cygwin has a free version of XFree86/Xorg server that comes with it. I think there was an ancient one by mix or something like that. Does your university have any under site license? When I worked at Duke, they had a site license for the X-win32 product from starnet (www.starnet.com). -- Sean