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Metacity-2.4.55

Introduction to Metacity

The Metacity package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows.

Package information

Metacity dependencies

Required

XFree86-4.3.0.1, intltool-0.26 and GTK+-2.2.4

Optional

startup-notification-0.5 and GConf-2.2.1

Installation of Metacity

Install Metacity by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexec=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make &&
make install

Configuring Metacity

Configuration Information

Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding.

cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
xterm &
exec metacity
EOF

Contents

The Metacity package contains metacity.

Description

metacity

metacity is a window manager used mainly by GNOME.

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