Hi. This is my first time installing Gentoo and I'm having a problem.

I installed the base system without any hitches.

I sort of jumped the gun and emerged Gnome before testing the X server (whoops).

Now when I run the command "startx", Gnome starts up but the windows have strange behaviors. The backgrounds of programs are completely transparent, buttons won't appear until they are rolled over/clicked on, titlebars won't dissapear when a program exits, etc.

Is this a problem with X? Gnome? Something else?

I really appreciate your patience with my ignorance.

hi there,

i don't see any other chance: re-emerge gnome.
i wonder how did you compile gnome without X. did you make something weird with your USE flags? like -X ??
if it is not a problem for you, repeat the process in the correct order:
1. emerge xorg
2. emerge gnome
if still does not work, post
regards

slackie1000

Emerging gnome without haveing xorg installed would have simply installed it as a dependency. Sounds like Metacity's composite manager is playing up, see if there's an option to disable it else you could try rippig aparent the ebuild and change the configure like to --disable-composite

See if you can disable Composite in xorg or rerun xorgconfig,may fix it.
Also look into xcompmgr.