Interesting. After I log into the console, if I echo $PATH, it shows "/usr/X11R6/bin" as the last entry. However, if I add "echo $PATH" at the top of my /usr/X11R6/bin/startx script, the last entry says "/usr/X11R6/bin=". I don't know where the '=' is coming from, but that seems to be the problem. If I do as someone (I'm writing this from work where I don't have my full email history) suggested, startx succeeds, with a path that ends with "/usr/X11R6/bin=:/usr/X11R6/bin" When I get home from work, I'll try to track down where that extra '=' is coming from. In answer to someone else's question (again with the lack of history), yes, Eclipse is written in Java. If I remember correctly, you seemed to think that writing it in Java would be a bad idea. Would you mind explaining why you think so? My heart belongs to Smalltalk, so I won't take offense to any Java-bashing. :) Thanks again, - Jared