- 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
