jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes: > Hi, Hi, [...] > I managed to start GNOME properly but the splash screen stayed in > the foreground for 5 minutes before disappearing. > Has anyone experienced such behaviour? Apparently you have two same entries in ~/.gnome2/session and these two entries are surely two window managers. Edit your session with gnome-session-properties and remove double entries, then save your session with gnome-session-save Christian