GNOME installed, still have a few problems.
 

After 2 months of downloading, compiling and reformatting I now have GNOME 2.1.90 installed to a point that I'm fairly happy with. Theres still a few rough edges though and I'd really like to get these sorted out so I'd appreciate any help you can give.

First up, Nautilus insists on covering my desktop background with a drab shade of grey. I can see the background momentarily when I close apps but when the desktop refreshes afterward the grey returns completely. Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

Secondly, the gnome-theme-manager refuses to work, crashing with a seg fault every time it's called. Should I rebuild/reinstall the package that installed this or is something else wrong?

Lastly, the GNOME mixer applet in the top right panel doesn't have a proper icon, just an IE-style red X, even though I've installed the gnome-icon package. Again, should I recompile/reinstall the package (I noticed that the Volume Control applet has an icon in all the menu so it seems that one exists for it but it just isn't showing up in the panel applet) or is there a problem elsewhere?

Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I d/loaded and use Dropline Gnome very fast and very easy setup. (Gorgeous too Gnome looks awesome it just doesn't automatically add icons to programs I install like KDE3 does)

I know this isn't direct help to your question but its a suggestion if you don't want to do a recompile of your current gnome setup.

Rob

I tried Dropline GNOME once but it didn't really agree with my system, I kept getting graphical glitches, particularly in the menus.

I think I have the problem with gnome-theme-manager worked out: It seems to be caused by my use of Sawfish as a WM instead of the default Metacity. Switching back to Metacity and restarting GNOME solved that problem. Since switching back to Metacity isn't an option (it's too bland and ugly) I think I'll just have to put up with this one.

Now if only I can get the other two problems, particularly the nautilus desktop background craziness, worked out...

edit: Here is a screenshot. In the top right you can see the red X where the mixer icon is supposed to be and the grey Nautilus background.

edit2: Solved the Nautilus craziness. It was a simple matter of compile version 2.1.91 (I had 2.1.6 installed previously). That leaves only the volume control issue. Any ideas?

Using Sawfish instead of Metacity is causing a few more problems than I thought. Along with the Theme Manager, I've discovered that the "Show Desktop" button on the taskbar doesn't work (it gives the signal but sawfish doesn't appear to accept it) and several of the options in the "Desktop Preferences" don't work while Sawfish is running (Although much of the same functionality is replicated by the Sawfish capplet so it isn't show stopping, just annoying). My question is: Is there any way I can get Sawfish to integrate properly into GNOME 2? I really, really, really don't like Metacity but these integration issues that sawfish appears to have are driving me insane.