i don't know why tasksel uses lxde-core, but, if you would depend on lxde instead, you would get network-manager-gnome that the lxde maintainers in debian recommend for their users. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/