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
