About:
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.

Author:
marnanel [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
6.87/10.00 (12 votes)

Homepage:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]es/metacity/2.19/metacity-2.19.21.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]s/metacity/2.19/metacity-2.19.21.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://svn.gnome.org/[..]cvs/metacity/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/trunk/
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=metacity
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/metacity-devel-list/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		X11 Applications :: Gnome
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.19.21	18-Jun-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stable	2.18.5	18-Jun-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Window Managers
  by Matt Chapman , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Nov 30th 2002 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] My problem with Metacity
by Jim Hartley - Jan 21st 2007 07:52:31

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).

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[»] Re: My problem with Metacity
by marnanel - Jun 13th 2007 05:00:01


> 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. . If you want this, use Sawfish or something.

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[»] I hate to be a pedant
by Nick Welch - Dec 23rd 2004 23:27:04

.. but how is metacity "lightweight"? It has ~60000 lines of code and links to a ton of libraries.

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[»] I hate metacity, suck!
by abby - Jun 26th 2003 00:02:24

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.

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[»] Re: I hate metacity, suck!
by Hohlraum - Oct 21st 2004 07:24:45


> 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!



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[»] Re: I hate metacity, suck!
by Rafael R. - Jan 13th 2005 04:44:17


>

> % 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 !!!

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