Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-24

Chapter 30. GNOME Core Packages

Metacity-2.34.3

Introduction to Metacity

Metacity is the fallback window manager for GNOME, used if the video driver does not provide hardware acceleration. It is conventionally run from gnome-session, which will start the necessary GNOME daemons.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Metacity Dependencies

Required

gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10, gtk+-2.24.10, libcanberra-0.28 and Zenity-3.4.0

Recommended

Rarian-0.8.1 and startup-notification-0.12

Additional Runtime Dependency

notification-daemon-0.7.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/metacity

Installation of Metacity

Install Metacity by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.34.3 &&
install -v -m644 README rationales.txt doc/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.34.3

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you have installed Rarian but wish to disable the updates to the Scrollkeeper database.

Contents

Installed Programs: metacity, metacity-message, metacity-theme-viewer and metacity-window-demo
Installed Library: libmetacity-private.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/metacity-1, /usr/share/gnome/help/creating-metacity-themes, /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties, /usr/share/metacity and /usr/share/themes/{AgingGorilla,Atlanta,Bright,Crux,Esco,Metabox,Simple}/metacity-1

Short Descriptions

metacity

is the GNOME fallback window manager, used when the video driver does not support acceleration.

metacity-theme-viewer

allows you to preview any installed Metacity theme. When designing a new Metacity theme, you can use metacity-theme-viewer to measure the performance of a window frame option, and to preview the option.

metacity-window-demo

demonstrates various kinds of windows that window managers and window manager themes should handle.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:39:28 +0000