> c) Also I after install with gnome and such and such when I first logged in > on gdm gnome started up fine, but there was no windowmanager installed. > Maybe this is a missing dependency. You may have a window manager installed that's not gnome compliant. Check the symlink 'x-window-manager' in /etc/alternatives to see where it links. Gnome will use this window manager by default. cheers, Matt