2.10.0
==
This is a stable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.10.0.
The only difference between this version and 2.9.34 is some
translation updates.
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Gabor Kelemen (hu), ´ygimantas Berucka (lt),
Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Danilo ¦egan (sr),
Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
2.9.34
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 release candidate 1 (2.9.92).
Thanks to Aidan Delaney, Elijah Newren, and Joe Marcus Clarke for
fixes in this release.
- Fix crash that occurs when stupid apps claim that a window is its
own parent (Elijah, Joe) [#168207]
- Prevent the visual bell from changing the focus window (Elijah)
[#123366]
- Make sure that icons in the alt-tab popup are dimmed for all hidden
windows, not just minimized ones (Aidan) [#168455]
Translations
Elnaz Sarbar (fa), Ankit Patel (gu), Luca Ferretti (it),
Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Gnome PL Team (pl),
Alexandre Folle de Menezes (pt_BR)
2.9.21
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10. Since there
have been an awful lot of fixes since Gnome 2.10 Beta 2, we are hoping
to get an extra week of wider testing of all these changes before hard
code freeze.
Thanks to Aidan Delaney, Crispin Flowerday, Elijah Newren, and Joe
Marcus Clarke for fixes in this release.
- Make sure we get a valid timestamp if one doesn't come with the
_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message (Elijah, Crispin) [#166728]
- Avoid sending CurrentTime to our XSetInputFocus wrappers, but
handle it better in case we miss any cases (Elijah) [#166732]
- Remove useless function call (Aidan) [#166730]
- Avoid new windows being obscured by the focus window and thus
possibly lost (Elijah) [#166524]
- Don't unconditionally place not-to-be-focused windows, such as
splashscreens, below the focus window (Elijah) [#167042]
- Raise the ancestor of a window instead of the window itself
(Elijah) [#166894]
- Cover half a dozen issues needed to fix a variety of rare timestamp
bugs (Elijah) [#167358]
- Fix a possible crash on logout (Joe) [#167935]
- Fix an obscure xinerama placement bug with windows that are too
large to fit in the workarea in both dimensions (Elijah) [#166757]
- Ignore all focus and focus-stealing-prevention code in
meta_window_show when not showing the window for the first time
(Elijah) [#167199]
- when receiving a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message, switch to the desktop
where the window is located before activating instead of moving the
window to the current desktop (Elijah) [#128380]
- Handle _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages that come with timestamps
(Elijah) [#161361]
- Handle keynav vs. mousenav in mouse and sloppy focus modes (Elijah)
[#167545]
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Martin Willemoes Hansen (da),
Kostas Papadimas (el), David Lodge (en_GB),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Tõivo Leedjärv (et),
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Takeshi AIHANA (ja),
Young-Ho, Cha (ko), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Michiel Sikkes (nl),
Kjartan Maraas (no), Duarte Loreto (pt), Leonid Kanter (ru),
Marcel Telka (sk), Laurent Dhima (sq), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
2.9.13
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 Beta 2 (2.9.91).
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Balamurali Viswanathan, Stephane Loeuillet,
Benjamin Kahn, Garrett (LeSage?), Jose Moya, Dave Ahlswede, Arvind
Samptur, John Paul Wallington, Tim Herold, Muktha Narayan, Sinisa
Segvic, Owen Taylor, Crispin Flowerday, "RHEL-3", KWin, and Google for
improvements in this release.
- Refuse to focus a window with a modal transient, and focus the
transient instead (Elijah) [#164716]
- Make sure we get gconf notifications about the terminal command
changing (Balamurali) [#160934]
- Specify encoding of src/metacity.desktop.in (Stephane) [#151850]
- New 48x48 default icon (Benjamin, Garrett) [#160660]
- Add man pages for metacity-window-demo and metacity-theme-viewer
(Jose, Dave) [#143513]
- Fix minimized window display in workspace switcher after relogin
with a saved session (Elijah) [#164677]
- Ignore sticky windows for non-active workspaces (Elijah) [#165259]
- Don't wireframe when accessibility is on, it apparently causes a
desktop wide freeze. (Arvind) [#159538]
- Keep tooltip on screen horizontally for xinerama (John) [#165261]
- Stick and unstick transients with their parent automatically
(Elijah) [#152283]
- Shaded windows should not show up in pagers (Elijah) [#165377]
- Treat splashscreens same as other windows for stacking (Elijah)
[#165243]
- Plug a pair of leaks (Elijah) [#165378]
- Take into account the appropriate list of windows when placing a
new one (Elijah) [#165381]
- Correct misleading and inaccurate wording (Elijah) [#165380]
- Handle xcomposite pkgconfig version regression (Tim) [#149368]
- Make the warn-about-buggy-session-management-apps dialog be sticky
(Elijah) [#164745]
- Fix the problem with fullscreen windows on a different xinerama
monitor not staying on top ("RHEL-3") [#156511]
- Make the unfocussed title bar distinguishable in cases where it
otherwise isn't for the Atlanta, Simple, and Bright themes (Muktha)
[#125291]
- Correct the stacking when returning from fullscreen mode (Elijah)
[#165718]
- Focus parents of dismissed transient windows in preference to the
window that most recently had keyboard focus (Elijah) [#157360]
- Make sure window->border_only is initialized so we don't get random
windows without decorations (Elijah, Sinisa, Owen) [#145131]
- Add period to the end of reduced_resources' description (Dave)
[#165780]
- If activation requests are too old, set the demands_attention hint
instead of actually activating (Elijah, Crispin) [#166395]
- Ignore xconfigurerequest events for stacking when it should be safe
to do so (Elijah, Crispin, KWin, Google) [#166395]
- Set a _METACITY_VERSION property (a utf8 string) on the WM check
window (Elijah) [#165350]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Frank Arnold (de),
Adam Weinberger (en_CA), David Lodge (en_GB),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Pauli Virtanen (fi),
Young-Ho, Changwoo Ryu (ko), ´ygimantas Berucka (lt),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Duarte Loreto (pt),
Marcel Telka (sk), Christian Rose (sv),
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.9.8
==
This is a brown paper bag release to cover up the crash I introduced
in version 2.9.5. Thanks to Sebastien Bacher and the bleeding edge
Ubuntu users for quickly catching the occasional crash that my fix in
#123576 could cause, and for verifying that the patch I made fixed
this issue (I couldn't duplicate).
- Don't forget to initialize display->grab_old_window_stacking
[#165093]
2.9.5
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 Beta 1 (2.9.90).
Thanks to Vincent Noel, Elijah Newren, and John Paul Wallington for
fixes in this release.
- Restore original stacking when aborting an alt-esc window switch
operation (Elijah) [#123576]
- Fix vertical maximization for second screen (John) [#163420]
- Show labels in bold for windows that demand attention (Vincent)
[#164590]
- In the tab task switcher popup, dim the window icon and put its
name between brackets when the window is minimized (Vincent)
[#136666]
- Correct highlighting of windows in workspace switcher popup
(Elijah) [#163450]
Translations
zh_CN (Funda Wang), nb (Kjartan Maraas), nn (Kjartan Maraas), de
(Frank Arnold)
2.9.3
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.9.4.
Thanks to Leena Gunda, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and mild7 users sourceforge
net, and Elijah Newren for fixes in this release.
- Don't focus the panel on click (Elijah) [#160470, and others]
- Make sure the save session dialog appears focused (Elijah) [#162983]
- Correctly restore size of window when double clicking the titlebar
to unmaximize (Leena) [#161236]
- Install schema data from builddir not srcdir (Thomas) [#161417]
- Provide more documentation to make it easier for people to
contribute to Metacity (Elijah) [#162646]
- Allow users to move the window around immediately after
double-clicking to shade (Elijah) [#90290]
- Focus windows that manually position themselves too (Elijah) [#107347]
- Don't show window menu if all options are invalid (Elijah) [#148915]
- Exclude windows with skip_taskbar hint set from the alt-tab list;
they'll appear in the ctrl-alt-tab list instead. (mild7 users
sourceforge net) [#106249]
- Wrap XSetInputFocus to make display->expected_focus_window more
reliable (Elijah) [#154598]
- Remove conflict between windows on multiple workspaces and hidden
being a global quantity (Elijah) [#156182]
Translations
es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador), sv (Christian Rose), cs (Miloslav
Trmac), ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
2.9.2
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.9.3.
Thanks to Alex Duggan, ash AT contact bg, Elijah Newren, and Baptiste
Mille-Mathias for fixes in this release.
- Add a missing period at the end of a sentence (Baptiste) [#158210]
- When snap-moving don't snap to hidden windows, such as transients
of minimized windows (Elijah) [#157180]
- Focus the desktop when showing it (Elijah) [#159257]
- Remove deprecated capplet (Alex, ash) [#160753]
Translations
da (Martin Willemoes Hansen), bg (Alexander Shopov), en_CA (Adam
Weinberger)
2.9.1
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10, released a
little late for Gnome 2.9.2 but there weren't many changes anyway this
time...
Thanks to Benjamin Kahn, Marco Pesenti Gritti, James Henstridge, and
Vincent Untz for fixes/features in this release.
- gnome-panel-screenshot was renamed to gnome-screenshot (Vincent) [#157529]
- Update build stuff (use newer automake, etc.) (James)
- Fix build out of src directory (Marco) [#158325]
- Use a better default application icon (Benjamin) [#160373]
Translations
da (Martin Willemoes Hansen), fr(Christophe Merlet, Baptiste
Mille-Mathias), lt(´ygimantas Berucka), ja(Takeshi AIHANA)
2.9.0
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10.
Thanks to Rob Adams, Anders Carlsson, Elijah Newren, Soeren Sandmann,
and Vincent Untz for fixes and features in this release.
- Add a keybinding to launch a terminal (Vincent) [#154232]
- Correct the requested number of keycodes (Rob) [#155247]
- Add tracker bugs to rationales.txt file
- Make the "showing desktop" mode be per-workspace instead of
per-screen. (Elijah) [#142198]
- Don't try to use an ARGB visual at all if the depth isn't
32-bit. This caused major slowdowns with Composite
enabled. (Anders)
- Fix the modifier key breakage introduced by an Xorg
change. (Soeren) [#151554]
- Update _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN so the pager on the panel will know
whether to display windows as visible or hidden (Elijah) [#105665]
- Fix the alt-tab order--if the most recently used window is not
focused, start alt tabbing with that window instead of the one
after it (Elijah) [#156251]
- Don't lower newly mapped windows when they're denied focus if they
are transients of the focused window. Instead, defocus the
currently focused window (Elijah) [#151996]
- Re-enable focus stealing prevention (Elijah)
Translations
es(Francisco Javier F. Serrador), sq(Laurent Dhima), sr(Danilo ¦egan),
cs(Miloslav Trmac), en_CA(Adam Weinberger), en_GB(David Lodge)
This is a stable release for Gnome 2.8.2.
Fixes
* Correct the requested number of keycodes (Rob) [#155247]
* Make the "showing desktop" mode be per-workspace instead of
per-screen. (Elijah) [#142198]
* Don't try to use an ARGB visual at all if the depth isn't
32-bit. This caused major slowdowns with Composite
enabled. (Anders)
* Fix the modifier key breakage introduced by an Xorg
change. (Soeren) [#151554]
* Fix the alt-tab order--if the most recently used window is not
focused, start alt tabbing with that window instead of the one
after it (Elijah) [#156251]
* Use only numbers from the Fibonacci sequence for micro version
numbers at Havoc's request (thus the reason this is 2.8.8 instead
of 2.8.7--2.8.4 and 2.8.6 were mistakes that didn't comply with
this requirement)
Translations
* da(Martin Willemoes Hansen), fr(Christophe Merlet, Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
Fixes
* Ensure the correct window is focused when minimizing (Elijah)
* Fix keynav with mouse focus (Elijah)
* Fix several race conditions in window focusing (Elijah)
* Focus the top window when lowering by frame click (Ken)
* Fix some compiler warnings (Kjartan)
* Fix some valgrind-reported errors (Elijah)
* Fix some potential issues with autoraising windows (Elijah)
Translations
* en_CA(Adam Weinberger), it(Luca Ferretti)
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
This release features a number of bug fixes, and also the disabling of
the focus-stealing-prevention code (we're entering hard code freeze in
Gnome so it's too late to fix the remaining issues, especially since
it requires several patches to modules other than Metacity).
Thanks to Havoc Pennington, Soeren Sandmann, Elijah Newren, and Rich
Wareham for fixes in this release
Fixes
* track the last_xor_rect, for wireframe painting (Havoc)
* Move wireframe code before grab is released to prevent endless
loops with fullscreen windows. (Soeren)
* Make dialogs that Metacity shows follow focus-stealing-prevention
conventions. (Elijah; part of #149028)
* add render extension check to the display, don't build the
compositing manager by default, use an ARGB visual when available
for the window frame (Rich Wareham; various tweaks added later by
Havoc)
* move the have_xrender variable initialization up in the file since
it can be set as part of composite check (Havoc)
* make argb stuff compile, add some code from xcompmgr (Havoc)
* fix an assertion failure that would occur after increasing the
number of workspaces; fix stacking order when a window is denied
focus (Elijah; #150615)
* disable some compositor code that wasn't working, don't grab the
server during repaint, various set_background fixes and
refactoring (Havoc)
Translations
* az(Metin Amiroff), bs(Kemal Sanjta), ca(Jordi Mallach),
el(Kostas Papadimas), es(Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
eu(Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio), fi(Pauli Virtanen),
nb(Kjartan Maraas), sq(Laurent Dhima), uk(Maxim Dziumanenko)
Hiratsuka.
Some important bug fixes in this release, including somy a11y bugs,
and a compile issue on Solaris.
Thanks to Rob Adams, Bill Haneman, Peter O'Shea, Mike Castle, Soeren
Sandman, Elijah Newren, and Havoc Pennington for fixes in this
release.
Fixes
* Adjust the MRU list when preventing focus stealing (Elijah)
* Ensure that we maintain a focus window when switching workspaces
in mouse focus mode (Elijah)
* Some improvements in the showing desktop mode, and window
activation (Elijah)
* Make sure cursors changes are handled correctly (Havoc, Soeren)
* Some fixes to the window menu (Rob)
* Fix a compile issue on Solaris (Peter, Mike)
* Allow struts to go past the middle of the screen, provided there's
a gap between them, fixing an issue with gnome magnifier (Bill)
Translations
* fi (Pauli Virtanen), ja (Takeshi AIHANA), ko (Young-Ho, Cha),
pl (Gnome PL Team), ru (Dmitry G. Mastrukov), sr (Danilo Å egan),
tk (Gurban M. Tewekgeli), zh_CN (Funda Wang)
patch provided by Kouichirou Hiratsuka in PR pkg/26573
changes:
Many bugfixes and better support for the freedesktop.org EWMH spec.
- set titlebar_uses_system_font = false (it was ugly)
- make naming for "move a window"/"move the window"/"move window"
more consistent (fixes#142235)
- Add trailing quotes to keybinding explanation text.
- support for EWMH update counter spec & add compensation events
when events are ignored. (fixes#143333 and #109362)
- Fix focus bugs: remove race condition on window close/minimize
(#131582), make focus choice consistent for each focus mode
(#135810), choose correct focus window when "un-showing the
desktop (#144900), make sure correct window is focused when using
the workspace switcher (#120100).
- Use meta_topic instead of meta_warning when failing to connect to
a session manager. (fixes#136218)
- Make meta_window_delete take a timestamp, and be sure to pass it
one.
- Add support for EWMH _NET_WM_USER_TIME spec. This enables part of
preventing focus stealing. (bug #118372) Also fix bug with
windows not being focused on unminimizing caused by original
patch. (also bug #118372)
- Fix some support for EWMH hints, and fix USER_TIME support to
include the DEMANDS_ATTENTION hint. Also includes some code for
implementing _NET_RESTACK_WINDOW and _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW, but
this is disabled pending feature thaw.
- make the --enable-xinerama switch work properly
- prevent unwanted grab op from occurring
- don't down-size nitems from a gulong to an int
- add a value type check for the visual/audible bell gconf settings
- make the no sm support warning resizable
- more translations
2.8.0
=====
No code changes in this release, but some new translations.
2.7.1
=====
Thanks to Rob Adams for fixes in this release.
- bug #122016 - fix a focus race
- Change move_to_workspace_left/right/up/down keybindings to
<Control><Alt><Shift> arrow to avoid conflicting with new
keybindings in spacial nautilus.
- fix dialog stacking order issues so e.g. panel properties
dialog is above the panel
2.7.0
=====
First unstable release tarball for GNOME 2.6.
Thanks to Anders Carlsson, Elijah Newren, Rob Adams, James Cape,
Thomas Fitzimmons, Calum Benson for fixes in this release.
by moving the inclusion of buildlink3.mk files outside of the protected
region. This bug would be seen by users that have set PREFER_PKGSRC
or PREFER_NATIVE to non-default values.
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES should be ordered so that for any package in the
list, that package doesn't depend on any packages to the left of it
in the list. This ordering property is used to check for builtin
packages in the correct order. The problem was that including a
buildlink3.mk file for <pkg> correctly ensured that <pkg> was removed
from BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and appended to the end. However, since the
inclusion of any other buildlink3.mk files within that buildlink3.mk
was in a region that was protected against multiple inclusion, those
dependencies weren't also moved to the end of BUILDLINK_PACKAGES.
- flipflop on #102209/#115072 again (raise on click, but break some apps by
causing enter/leave).
- fix memory corruption in window list.
- fix window-type-inference code for legacy toolkits' windows.
2.6.3
- fix to right, left, bottom onscreen resize constraints
- detect case where we fail to get a pointer grab when the mouse
is clicked, to avoid "this window is stuck to my mouse!"
- keep panels at the end of the focus MRU list so we don't
focus them all the time in annoying ways
2.6.2
- fix to repaint after resize always, so on maximize
and theme changes we get things drawn properly
- fix a compile issue on HPUX
- fix translations of metacity-message output
- fix to update window icons when they change
- put a limit on number of characters displayed in
window titles during Alt+tab
- fix configure check for Xrandr
- fix 64-bit bug in property reading that broke
things badly on 64-bit
- don't move focus when clicking close button on a window
- fix a crash in getting pixmap icons
- spawn dialogs and child processes on the proper
screen in multihead situations
- if the focus gets set to None, set it back to
something sane
- load accessibility modules and set accessibility roles
- fix hang after displaying warning dialogs
- fix a memory corruption when sticking/unsticking windows
that lead to a frequent crash and windows appearing
in Alt+tab improperly
- fix some handling of partial-width panel struts
- more translations
2.6.1
- rebuild with fixed glib-gettext.m4
2.6.0
- some additional translations
2.5.5
- fix aspect ratio handling
- fix "shake loose" functionality for maximized windows
- handle Xrandr size changes properly again
- fix fullscreen window detection
- fix workspace name handling
- don't steal button press events on root window
- nuke metacity.spec due to nonmaintenance
- allow too-large-for-screen windows to move their titlebar offscreen
- keep an MRU list of windows per-workspace and use it to focus
the next window when the focused window disappears
- fix cursor when moving
- improve appearance of opaque resize
- make BELOW window state work
- fix a crash when gdk_pixmap_foreign_new() returned NULL
2.5.3
- fixups to .desktop file
- activate window prior to grab end, avoiding
extra focus events
- add support for partial-width panels (fixes corner panel
and xinerama window position constraints)
- added keybinding to toggle window as "always on top"
- support --disable-schemas-install option to configure
- destroy support for legacy GNOME 1.x hints; metacity
no longer works with GNOME 1.x
- disable raise-on-click for mouse focus modes
- fix bug that broke many Javascript popup menus with mozilla
- allow "shaking loose" maximized windows, to move them
between Xinerama heads or whatever
- honor desktop-wide double click timeout
- handle window placement properly for windows that
start out maximized
- integrate Ximian patch to go ahead and log out after 4 minutes
even if a dialog is open
- fix a segfault
- fix bug where window groups weren't always kept up to date
- fix bug where focus got confused when switching workspaces
with mouse focus mode
- fix 64-bit crash on s390x
- chdir to user's homedir on startup
- keep window in fullscreen layer when its transients are focused
- fix keybindings bug when you had ScrollLock enabled
- many translation updates
2.5.2
- improved wording/UI for some dialogs
- while clicking a window button, if you move the mouse outside
the button such that releasing the mouse button won't activate
the window button, visually indicate by "popping out" the button.
- fix some valgrind errors
- change "show desktop mode" to convert to "everything is minimized
mode" if you open a new window while showing desktop, rather
than previous behavior of simply leaving show desktop mode.
- fix a trivial memory leak
- change "move to workspace N" so it doesn't switch workspaces,
just moves the window.
- translation updates
2.5.1
- fix bug where fullscreen windows were below top panels
- build fix for Solaris
- support diagonal window movement with numeric keypad
- multihead fix
- build fix for Cygwin
- place on xinerama containing the pointer
- fix totally hosed window placement/movement for frameless
windows
- improvement to smoothness of window move/resize
2.5.0
- many new translations
- fix an infinite loop while holding a server grab triggered by
some recent Qt versions doing weird stuff
- fix bug where Alt+rightclick repeatedly on titlebar resulted
in zillions of menus
- fix Alt+Tab to *actually* put minimized windows at the end,
though this was always intended
- rewrite size/positions constraint code (currently known
to be quite buggy, e.g. xmms is hosed)
- enforce size of at least 1x1 on windows
- reduce latency of managing new windows still further
by using async properties code in more places
- don't grab keybindings on docks, so gnome-panel
can handle them
- suck in the panel's screenshot and run dialog global
bindings
- lots of improvements to window placement
- sync max number of workspaces with pager applet
- fix to keep focus when inside window frame in
strict mouse focus mode
- make it possible to start a reverse tab with
shift+alt+tab (vs. alt+tab then shift)
- fix a multihead issue with constraints between two
windows on different heads
- require GTK+ 2.2.0 and fontconfig
- default theme is now Simple
- add visual bell feature
- incorporate many fixes from 2.4.34
- other stuff
- some fixes to opaque resize that make it slightly less choppy
- fix some infinite loops caused by stupid apps with transient for cycles
- force window min/max size to be at least 1 pixel
- unfocus window on leaving window border, not on leaving window itself, in
strict mouse focus mode
- fix handling of workspace names so they don't get all lost/broken/etc.
- fix handling of ignored modifiers (makes key shortcuts work while
CapsLock/ScrollLock/NumLock are all enabled, most people didn't notice as
nobody turns on ScrollLock)
- fix multihead crash #106086
- many translation updates
configuration database from beeing modified by packages that do not honour
the --disable-schemas-install option. There is no need to patch these broken
packages any more.
Okay'ed by wiz.
- tons of new translations
- add new theme Simple and make it the default
- match key handlers to key codes instead of key syms
which fixes some occasional keybinding bugs
- don't show workspace menu items if there's only one workspace
- fix fullscreen mode workaround for xine/mplayer
- fix startup sequences that use StartupWMClass
- fix 64-bit bug in async-getprop.c that caused a lockup
- put metacity-properties.c in the tarball
- don't mess up the focus window in mouse focus mode when
switching workspaces
- improve event compression to speed up window move/resize
a bit more
- don't jump mozilla windows between workspaces
- don't stick the tab/workspace-switch popup
on machines under heavy load or slow machines
- fix for #103317 (windows getting "stuck" when unfullscreened)
- support up to 32 run_command keybindings (Rob Adams)
- add compression for motion events, somewhat suboptimally,
a better patch is pending for GNOME 2.2.1, should fix "slow
move/resize" for most people (especially when combined
with Alex's nautilus fixes)
- fix configure options (Akira Tagoh)
- we were making all dialogs skip the taskbar, even non-transient
ones, though this was supposedly fixed a while ago. Now really
fixed.
- change back to Alt+click by default for the window drag feature.
- assign Alt+F12 to shade window
- fix not deleting enough workspaces when the number
was reduced via the pager config dialog (readams@hmc.edu)
- don't allow windows under the top panel ever, even if they
are tall windows (Arvind)
- fix up the window layout for directional workspace nav,
so you always stop at the edges and always end up
where you expect (hp, with tweaks from readams@hmc.edu)
- focus new windows in mouse focus mode (readams@hmc.edu)
- support xeyes, oclock, etc. by applying shape mask
to the window manager frame (yeah it resizes slow, deal)
- fix vertical/horizontal maximize
- handle crossing events resizing for more opaque resize goodness
(Soeren)
- add wacky _METACITY_UPDATE_COUNTER experimental extension
to do nice opaque resizing (does nothing without a GTK patch)
- fix a crash setting workspace names
- fix internationalized WM_NAME reading
Changes in the package:
- Use GConf2/schemas.mk to register schema files in the GConf2 database.
- Depend on gnome2-dirs to handle shared directories.
- Drop dependancy on ptl2.
- Provide a buildlink2.mk file because of the new library.
NetBSD Packages Collection.
Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather
Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as
opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key
on UNIX keyboards.
- Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers
are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.
- Uses GTK+ 2.0 for drawing window frames. This means colors, fonts,
etc. come from GTK+ theme.
- Has a simple theme system and a couple of extra themes come with it.
Change themes via gconf-editor or gconftool:
gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/theme Crux
- Change number of workspaces via gconf-editor or gconftool:
gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 5
Can also change workspaces from GNOME 2 pager.
- Change focus mode:
gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode mouse
