Xserver. Create two configs: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-High /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-Low ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-High /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Then just find the line in your xdm configs that is specifing what displays xdm is managing. /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-High vt7 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-Low vt8 I don't have xdm installed, but with GDM all you would do is edit the [servers] section to look like this: [servers] 0=/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-High vt7 1=/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-Low vt8 If both config files work, it should work just fine. Seems to me like you're doing alot of extra work. XDM should share a common config, even at different resoultions. If something needs to be specific to a display, it's denoted with that display's number. Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055 They must not get baseball sized hail in Redmond. If they did MS would have realized HailStorm is a bad name for their new services.