On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:07:49AM -0700, Peter Clark wrote: > First off, I don't want a flame war. I am perfectly happy with > Blackbox myself, so this is really for my wife, a Windows refugee. I > recognize that she would be much more comfortable with a desktop > environment, and want to make things comfortable. I was in the same situation. I have installed icewm and tweaked the things a little bit. Now my wife is a happy surfer/mailer 8). I got tired of long waits with gnome: startx ................ gterm .......... you get the picture; icewm is simple but can be made to look nice nice: icons, themes, (indeed blackbox is too barren for my wife) and a taskbar. florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4