Metacity-2.34.13

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-7.2 platform.

Package Information

Metacity Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.17, libcanberra-0.30, yelp-xsl-3.6.1 and Zenity-3.6.0

Recommended

Runtime Dependencies

notification-daemon-0.7.6 and polkit-gnome-0.105

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

Command Explanations

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

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/wm-properties, /usr/share/help/*/creating-metacity-themes, /usr/share/metacity, /usr/share/themes/AgingGorilla/metacity-1, /usr/share/themes/Atlanta/metacity-1, /usr/share/themes/Bright/metacity-1, /usr/share/themes/Crux/metacity-1, /usr/share/themes/Esco/metacity-1, /usr/share/themes/Metabox/metacity-1 and /usr/share/themes/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 2012-10-19 06:22:00 +0000