Peter, > xinit -- Xwin -clipboard -multiwindow &
You may need to specify the X server in its absolute path. Thus your command line should be: xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard -multiwindow & And make sure your $HOME/.xinitrc has no problem. The easiest way is to rename it so that it doesn't affect xinit behaviour. Takuma Murakami