OK - so failure is not necessarily a bad thing - I'm still learning and they say you learn more that way(!) MIX Xserver - it appears you can add fonts. I've not succeeded.. but perhaps I should try harder. Complicated by the fact that my proxy is quirky with ftp and 'mgetting' files from command lines is not my forte. Cygwin - well, I downloaded it - still downloading actually... I take it that its not an Xserver but a development system which for GNU on the windows platform on which - it may/should be possible to compile a version of Xfree86.... As I have difficulties compiling a just few lines of C code I don't think I'm going to succeed here.... WeirdX - ah sounds good. I downloaded it. But just what do you run? I tried the various html files which started applets but could not get export DISPLAY=W.X.Y.Z:0.0 to create any session -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School