Metacity
Metacity is a window manager for GNOME. It uses GTK+ 2 for drawing window frames, meaning that it inherits colors, fonts, etc. from the GTK+ theme.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Window Manager |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 18 Jun 2007 10:37
Changes: KDE applications no longer appear to set the attention hint when switching workspaces. New windows are opened on the current Xinerama. This release builds cleanly on Solaris.
- 18 Jun 2007 10:53
Changes: This release fixes a problem with KDE applications appearing to request attention when the user switches workspaces.
- 30 Sep 2006 01:53
Changes: This is the GNOME 2.16 release.
- 21 Oct 2004 07:01
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 11 Jan 2003 21:21
Changes: This version focuses new windows in mouse focus mode, supports xeyes and oclock, etc. by applying the shape mask to the window manager frame, changes back to Alt+click by default for the window drag feature, and assigns Alt+F12 to shade window. There are also a lot of bugfixes.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: My problem with Metacity
> on Metacity I find I have to click on the
> applet which is a royal PITA. Is there
> any way to configure this in Metacity?
No, that's a WONTFIX: see 82917 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82917). . If you want this, use Sawfish or something.
My problem with Metacity
On previous WMs (Enlightenment and Sawfish) it was possible to move from one workspace to the next by simply moving the mouse across the edge. Now on Metacity I find I have to click on the applet which is a royal PITA. Is there any way to configure this in Metacity? (Presumably **IF** this could be done it would also solve the problem of dragging windows from one workspace to another, also another very nice feature).
Re: I hate metacity, suck!
>
> % Metacity is perfect except one thing,
> % that it is a big wrong choice by the
> % author do !
> % Windows can't move over the top of
> the
> % screen. so bad, so disgusting,
> % uncomfortable ... I hate that ! It
> can't
> % make people feel free.
>
>
> Somebody set us up the bomb! All your
> base are belong to US!
>
>
L O L !!!
I hate to be a pedant
.. but how is metacity "lightweight"? It has ~60000 lines of code and links to a ton of libraries.
Re: I hate metacity, suck!
> Metacity is perfect except one thing,
> that it is a big wrong choice by the
> author do !
> Windows can't move over the top of the
> screen. so bad, so disgusting,
> uncomfortable ... I hate that ! It can't
> make people feel free.
Somebody set us up the bomb! All your base are belong to US!