Hi Jeremy, I am running XQuartz 2.7.5 under Maverick, but I can't get it work properly. (I am on a Retina 11,3 Macbook Pro) First of all, it takes a long time to start, xauth always gives me: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Wolf/.Xauthority it does not matter, if I remove .Xauthority or not, then it does give me: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key waiting for X sever to begin accepting connections MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key.. MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key.. MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key.. an nothing ... the only way to get it working is if I start it with sudo in a terminal, I get: NeoIX:~ Wolf$ sudo startx font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches font_cache: Updating FC cache font_cache: Done xauth: file /Users/Wolf/.serverauth.3832 does not exist /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 and kde starts working properly. not sure, what's wrong. Something wrong with the rights of certain files? best christof -- Munich School of Philosophy Kaulbachstr. 31a 80539 Munich office: +49.89.2386.2418 cell: +49.163.637.6450 http://www.hfph.mwn.de/lehrkoerper/lehrende/c_wolf For secure communication, extract the public key at http://chwolf.userweb.mwn.de/ch.wolf.asc Please respect my privacy and do not make my contact information available to third parties. This email is UNCLASSIFIED.