When I log into gnome the only icons on the bottom bar are the red hat hat, and the icon for open office writer. The box is in a networked environment, but everything shows up fine under other boxes (RHELWS31, RH9 etc). I saw one post that might indicate I didn't install a needed package, and so I did a manual install (vs a kickstart install) and the icons did show up. In my kickstart file I have "@ GNOME Desktop" and currently there are no -'s, so I would assume it should setup gnome completely. Can anyone confirm that I probably am mssing a package, and if so can some one suggest what it might be (or how I could go about tracking it down) Most people here use KDE but there are some gnome users, and I think its best we have both environments working. Thanks, Bill