It sure would be nice if after a fresh install, I could be up and running with a fully functional X configuration, complete with Gnome and a decent window-manager.
Not everything needed is installed, I've found, using the `simple' method and the task packages. Another problem is that once I get `gdm' installed, and log in, no window manager is started, even though `sawmill' is installed. I go to the Gnome configuration tool, and click on window manager, and it lists `sawmill' there as the current one, but it's NOT running. The only way I've found to make it work is to add a bogus window manager, try to switch to it, and when it fails, `sawmill' gets started. I can then log off and back in, and it's running like it should be.