I just noticed one of those annoying black boxes when running X on Windows 7. I don't think I ever tried to run X there before. The first release of Cygwin which was supposed to fix this problem was 1.7.0-51 but I can't even run X with that version. Have the console windows always been showing up for xterm in Windows 7? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple