Thanks everyone for your replies! I tried Tom's ~/.xsession suggestion; for some reason, it didn't work, but it did remind me that on my regular desktop machine (the one I'm playing with now is an eee pc) I use ~/.Xclients for this purpose - and that did the trick here, too. Actually, I don't know how much of gnome is running, but at least the WM is what I start in ~/.Xclients. For those who suggested fvwm: you're preaching to the convert :) On my regular desktop I use fvwm, too (the last, unmaintained version of the original, fvwm-1 series), and I've been perfectly happy with it for the past almost 14 years. But on the eee pc, I found I liked icewm (the default WM of the Xandros install it comes with) and I thought I'd try to see how it works there with Fedora. Now on to more substantial problems of F9 on the eee! Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list