hi there, i've always controlled what window manager / desktop manager gets used by editing .xinitrc directly. i'm curious -- surely there must be a debian utility to set choose/select such things. what is it? pete -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger p@dirac.org