Ive completed beyind linux from scratch, ive tweaked windows modem drivers to run under different linux kernel's, i can do a stage 1 gentoo install on an AMD64 macine without even peeking at the manual.. but i cant use Gnome !

i like the cleanness of gnome, so ive installed it.
i installed some window borders by downloading metacity themes, and extracting to /usr/share/themes (and also .themes in my home directory)

they dont show in the gnome theme->details->window border, but i managed to force it to work by changing the value in gconf-editor.

now ive tried to install some gtk and gtk2 themes.
ive extracted them to the corrrect places, they dont show in the theme switcher.

the theme switcher has a button called install theme... but it doesnt seem to actually do anything, i cannot find a gconf-editor value to change....

ive been trying to change gtk themes for hours now.

i installed a different program for switching themes (gtk-theme-switcher)
"emerge gtk-theme-switcher" compile went fine, and emerge says its installed...

however... i cant find the porgram... all i get is command not found !!!

GNOME-2.8 is reeeealy pissing me off right now..

what am i doing wrong ???

Not in gnome right now, but I'm pretty sure I was installing themes by just dragging and dropping the archives into the theme manager.

in the themes manager, click on install new theme and direct it to the new theme folder

It's dumb but if found if you go the Install New Theme.. route and then cloe and reopen the theme manager it'll be there.

not for me... ficed it though....
somehow nautilus seemed to be at fault...

it stoped responding, sent my cpu to 100% in use, and was easying away at 10 megabyes per second.... pretty soon, it had taken 700megs of ram...

killing the porces caused it to re-spawn,

i had to send "killall -9 nautilus" faster than it could respawn.

a recompile of nautilus fixed it..

strange !