welll... I am linux noob so please don't say that I am a retard....I know that already : )

ok. I installed openbox and after rebooting...instead of a normal colorful login a gray one came on. I exited into the console which was still pretty(with a background) and did"startx openbox"(this was a pure guess....) and when it went in the background was gray.
my question: how do I ether get the pretty login back or turn off the login all the way so that it would leave me in the console?
second question: is there a command for shutting down the computer? how can you reboot or shutdown from console?
and the third: in SaX2 I change the gometry of my screen(make it wider and move to the left slightly) and press save...after reboot the screen goes back to the screwd up state(slightly moved to the right) how do I make it stay?

4th...(the last) : I am trying to install PyPanel....installes the pythonx lib and the latest Imlib2 but pypane doesn't want to compile this is what it says:

linux:/1/PyPanel-2.3 # python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_ext
building 'ppmodule' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -g -fPIC -DHAVE_XFT=1 -DIMLIB2_FIX=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c ppmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/ppmodule.o -Wall
ppmodule.c:24:20: Imlib2.h: No such file or directory
ppmodule.c: In function `_ppicon':
ppmodule.c:146: error: `Imlib_Image' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppmodule.c:146: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ppmodule.c:146: error: for each function it appears in.)
ppmodule.c:146: error: syntax error before "icon"
ppmodule.c:160: error: `icon' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppmodule.c:160: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_load_image'
ppmodule.c:163: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_create_image_using_data'
ppmodule.c:163: error: `DATA32' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppmodule.c:163: error: syntax error before ')' token
ppmodule.c:167: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_context_set_drawable'
ppmodule.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_context_set_colormap'
ppmodule.c:169: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_create_image_from_drawable'
ppmodule.c: At top level:
ppmodule.c:172: error: syntax error before "else"
ppmodule.c:179: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_context_set_image'
ppmodule.c:179: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
ppmodule.c:179: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:180: error: syntax error before numeric constant
ppmodule.c:180: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_image_set_has_alpha'
ppmodule.c:180: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:181: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_context_set_drawable'
ppmodule.c:181: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
ppmodule.c:181: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:182: error: syntax error before numeric constant
ppmodule.c:182: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_context_set_blend'
ppmodule.c:182: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:183: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_render_image_on_drawable_at_size'
ppmodule.c:183: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
ppmodule.c:183: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:184: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `imlib_free_image'
ppmodule.c:184: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ppmodule.c:185: error: syntax error before "return"
ppmodule.c: In function `_ppshade':
ppmodule.c:191: error: `Imlib_Image' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppmodule.c:191: error: syntax error before "bg"
ppmodule.c:212: error: `bg' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppmodule.c:222: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_apply_filter'
ppmodule.c:223: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_render_pixmaps_for_whole_image'
ppmodule.c:225: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_free_pixmap_and_mask'
ppmodule.c: In function `_ppinit':
ppmodule.c:249: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_context_set_display'
ppmodule.c:250: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_context_set_visual'
ppmodule.c:252: warning: implicit declaration of function `imlib_context_set_dither'
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

am I doing something wrong? what should I do?read?

Install imlib and run the installation again. You can download and install suse 9.1 package from here or look for imlib on google.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...hp?query=imlib

don't quite understand that....
I installed it and ...and ran install again

linux:/1 # rpm -ivh imlib2-1.2.0-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
warning: imlib2-1.2.0-0.pm.0.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5277a2fa
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package imlib2-1.2.0-0.pm.0 is already installed

is that what you meant?
then tried to install the PyPanel again and it gives the same mistake....also tried -Uvh..but nothing changes.

also I tried downloading that and it said that a newer version is already installed...