[gentoo-user] gnome woes (mainly window manager)

[Robert S]

In response to a message on this group claiming the superiority of gnome 
over KDE I installed the latest gnome (emerge gnome).  There seem to be 
quite a large number of problems:

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)

If I try to start metacity I get:
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadMatch (invalid parameter 
attributes) serial 1630 error_code 8 request_code 66 minor_code 0)
Aborted

Can anybody help me with this one?
I've tried to emerge sawfish as a window manager and get (during compile 
of dependency rep-gtk):

libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make: *** [rep-types.lo] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make: *** [rep-gtk.lo] Error 1
!!! ERROR: x11-libs/rep-gtk-0.18 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 47, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status 
message.

Also - the default gnome installation complains that xscreensaver is 
missing on startup - easily fixed by emerging this package.  It should 
obviously be a dependency of gnome.

Think I'll stick to kde for the moment.
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