John Newbigin ha scritto: > Sounds like DNS. > > At a guess, I would try adding your hostname to the /etc/hosts file and > set either a permanent IP address, or use 127.0.0.1 > > John. > I agree with John: the communications between the server and the client under X are trying to resolve the hostname which fails and they have to wait for the DNS query timeout. The solution is to put the hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts If you want to be able to call the "official" address, put the full hostname.domain on a separate line on /etc/hosts I feel my english writing skills not adequate, so I write an example to explain better: /etc/hosts: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 linux localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 linux.mydomain.com so if I ping linux I ping the loopback address; if I ping linux.mydomain.com I ping the ethernet address. As I know GDM and X uses the short name, hence the "trick": even if the ethernet cable is unplugged (and 192.168.0.1 doesn't exists) all is fast and working. Bye Lorenzo