What window manager?

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

OK, I definitely have Gnome installed.  I looked at the pkg desc for gdm 
and still don't know why I'm supposed to remove it.  As soon as I tell 
aptitude to remove it, I get a bunch of errors about broken packages.  I 
ran tasksel several times to install the desktop task like you said and 
it just sat there at 0% even after waiting a long time.  I have a fast 
connection so I'm sure it wasn't downloading packages.  I'm now positive 
that I have all of Gnome installed.  I ran startx and it still just 
drops me on tty7 with no speech and no Orca.  I'm sure I have gdm 
removed even though it complained about gnome being broken.  It still 
wants to know what window manager to use and I don't think gnome itself 
is a window manager.  I've created new xorg config files from scratch a 
bunch of times and still no luck.  If I need to install something else, 
what?  I don't mind using Google but I'm not really sure what I'm 
looking for since I'm sure gnome is fully installed now.  It looks like 
the window manager doesn't matter but whatever I pick doesn't work.  If 
I look at the x11-common pkg, it looks like it installs a bunch of other 
window managers with no explanation of what to use.  I don't mind 
completely reinstalling everything but I'm not sure what pkgs to remove 
other than gnome-desktop-environment.  I still need help here and I'm 
obviously missing something.