New to Gnome Question

[Al Szymanski <aszy mac com>]

Ok, here goes. jacob berkman says that this is a working list so... 
maybe one of you foks can answer a few of my multitudes of questions.
To preface: I have downloaded/purchased and installed all of the 
following:
All of the Gnome packages from the MacOSXGNU CD May2002 edition
XFree86Complete - 4.2.0
xalf 0.12.1
OroborOSX v0.75a4r2
ORBit 0.5.8
AbiWord
AfterStep
and about a ton and a half of other pieces that got installed with these
I had Enlightenment on, but used OSXPM to remove.

What I want is to have a good, solid window manager that supports Gnome 
so that I can make use of Gnome specific apps.

Q1 ) which wm is the 'best' currently on the Darwin/MacOSX/XFree86 that 
will support Gnome. Where can I go to find the answers.
	I had Enlightenment up and could not get it to support Gnome
	I have ( I think ) twm working sort of with Gnome
	According the the OSXGNU CD, OroborOSX supports Gnome
	fully, but I get SOOOO many errors that this cannot be true

Q2) given the above wm, how do I configure it to fully support Gnome and 
panel etc?
	When I launch XDarwin, I come up in twm, then I use xterm
	to enter ' panel & ' and get the Gnome panel with most of the
	icons as black on black and a small pile of errors in the twm
	xterm display.  I found the trouble shooting article about the
	image library, followed it but did not solve the problem.

Q3) this is philosophical, I guess. My experience with *nix's has be 
always a joy ( as much as a chore ) and always had a 'guru' to call upon 
when I screwed something up ( not often... but it did happen :) . With 
the XFree86 and X windows stuff being so solid, why does it seem that 
getting it up and running on the OSX so difficult. Is it just Too New? 
or is there some really odd stuff to deal with. I admit it, I am more of 
a user than anything else,