2003-05-17 08:09:30 +02:00
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Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in
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the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also
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it may have something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards.
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2002-06-09 23:58:42 +02:00
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2003-05-17 08:09:30 +02:00
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- Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like
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Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.
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- Uses GTK+ 2.0 for drawing window frames. This means colors, fonts, etc.
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come from GTK+ theme.
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- Has a simple theme system and a couple of extra themes come with it.
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Change themes via gconf-editor or gconftool:
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gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/theme Crux
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- Change number of workspaces via gconf-editor or gconftool:
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gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 5
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Can also change workspaces from GNOME 2 pager.
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- Change focus mode:
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gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode mouse
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