> >Fifth : from a terminal in a graphical mode (kde ) find ./ -name '*'
> >returns nothing. ina terminal in text mode i receive corect output
> 
> I hate to say 'it works for me', but it does.  It's possible that it's 
> something with the keyboard in the previous problem.

It works for me as well.  Check to see if you have different locale
environment settings in the GUI shell vs. virtual terminal shell.  LC_* or
LOCALE.

> >Sixth : mc (midnight commander) is not part of SL ?? is it another 
> >aplication similar around ??
> 
> I've never used it ... so I'll let others answer that.

I've never used it either.  Closest thing I can think of based on my
next-to-zero knowledge is konqueror.  It's a graphical browser which also
manages filesystems, and is installed with KDE.  I'm sure Gnome has its own
as well.  And for some reason, Nautilus is popping into my head.  But that
could just be the voices I try to ignore.

Dan W.