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)
Am I to understand that you are trying to replace the default Gnome 2.x (where x is greater than...4, I believe) window manager, Metacity, with the "old" (GNOME 1.x) window manager, Sawfish, under GNOME 2.6 or 2.8?
Have you actually told GNOME that you want to do this?
You can either use
% sawfish --replace
(which didn't actually work for me when I tried to use this command to replace metacity with Openbox)
or you can change the WM in gconf-editor (which did work, iirc, until I just switched over to Openbox and ran gnome-panel instead).
Hope this helps, if I understand what you're trying to do. As far as I know, it should be possible.
Holly
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