On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:33:23 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post. > I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most > important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting up the > WindowManager? Any tips on how to do this?? > > One of the things that has impressed me the most about Gentoo so far (along > with a lot of other things) is the fact that most packages work pretty well > "out of the box" without bugs. > > As a reminder - here is the main problem again: > When I go to Desktop prefs -> Windows, I get the message > > "Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager" > > Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration tool > > If I go to the theme manager and change the theme, my windows disappear > (ie titlebar and borders)
I've got a really stupid question, but what is the exact version of the "latest and greatest" Gnome that you installed? AFAIK, you can't necessarily change the window manager with Gnome 2.x -- you're pretty much stuck with Metacity. Installing Sawfish won't really get you anywhere (unlike with Gnome earlier than 2.x). The reason I ask is because I haven't seen an error like that since the old Gnome 1.4 days, when you could swap out the default WM (Sawfish, IIRC) for a different one (like, say, Enlightenment)... Did you actually get Gnome fully installed? There are a LOT of dependencies, so it's usually best to use either "emerge gnome" or "emerge gnome-light", rather than trying to get all the dependencies yourself. "gnome" will get your everything except xscreensaver, while "gnome-light" is missing some other nifty packages, and seems severely limited from my perspective, but YMMV... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
