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Robert S wrote: | 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.
Try XFCE4. Nice, lightweight, fast, no bloat, nice and...well, nice (I guess I already said that before ;).
Regards,
Karsten
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