because it is so often asked, i figured i may as well put this page up -
it contains a lot of helpful info and helped me to get x working. 

http://macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za/xsetup.html
the author is bob nestor.

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John Ostrowick Computer Science Department, University of the
Witwatersrand 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1st Floor,
Senate House 1012 Phone: +27 (011) 716-3783 jon@cs.wits.ac.za or
jon@macenroe.cs.wits.ac.za or jon@is.co.za My web page is on my server's:
http://macenroe.cs.wits.ac.za/ My ftp site:
ftp://macenroe.cs.wits.ac.za/public partition/ My listserv:
subscr@macenroe.cs.wits.ac.za (any message with a body)