Problems with GNOME, reposting

[Amit Bapat <amitx bapat intel com>]

I have lots of problems with gnome.
I hope this is the right place to discuss them. I could not get much
help
searching dejanews archives.
BTW, are there any gnome related discussion groups?

I am new to Linux (not new to unix though).

Here it goes:
First about my machine.

Celeron 300, 64MB RAM, ATI Xpert 98 AGP (yes, I use XF86_Mach64).
With RedHat 5.2. and Gnome 1.0

1. Gnome starts with the default window manager as E. How do I change
it?
   NO. I could not do it thru' Control-Center. When click on Window
Manager I don't
   see anything at all.
2. When I click middle mouse button in root window I get E menus. Once I
clicked on
   logout menu option on that menu. What it only did was to shut down E.
But not the
   gnome session. So I logged out by selecting Log out from the Panel
system menu.
   Now when I next time start a gnome-session, E won't start. What's
wrong?
3. Once the whole display froze. So I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X.
But when
   I start a new gnome session, my panel is bare. I mean all the
launchers, pager,
   clock and other applets that I had put on the panel are gone! Where
did my
   settings go?
4. gdm won't let me login ever. I double chekcked. I always type my
password
   correctly. No luck. I have a user/group gdm. But it won't work.


--
Amit Bapat

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
-Dennis Ritchie