Metacity/məˈtæsɪti/[2]
was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment[3][4] until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3.[5] It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.[6]
The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it was released under the GNU General Public License. Before the introduction of Metacity in GNOME 2.2, GNOME used Enlightenment and then Sawfish as its window manager.[citation needed] Although Metacity was designed to integrate into the GNOME desktop, it does not require it to run,[citation needed] while GNOME can be used with different window managers provided that they support the part of the ICCCM specification that GNOME requires.[citation needed]
Metacity uses the GTK graphical widget toolkit to create its user interface components, which makes it themeable and makes it blend in with other GTK applications. Originally, Metacity used GTK 2 however as of version 3.12.0 it has been ported to GTK 3.[7]
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development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it was released under the GNU General Public License. Before the introduction of Metacity in GNOME...
available and the user had not selected 2D Mode. Mutter (Metacity + Clutter) has replaced Metacity as the default window manager for GNOME. It is featured...
conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz...
out with Sawfish as its default window manager, but later switched to Metacity in GNOME 2.2. The handling of windows, applications, and files in GNOME...
is known in the free software movement due to his work on HAL, GNOME, Metacity, GConf, and D-Bus. Havoc Pennington graduated from the University of Chicago...
2006 Metacity branched for 2.14—current compositor architecture since 2.22 Enable Metacity Compositing in GNOME 2.22 | Tombuntu in 2008—Metacity+Clutter...
the drawing of windows using an OpenGL Framebuffer Object or pbuffer. Metacity, an X window manager uses compositing in this way. The compositing can...
window managers Blackbox ≥ version 0.70 IceWM KWin (the default WM for KDE) Metacity (the default WM for GNOME 2, replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3) Openbox ≥ 3...
window manager. At least version 0.4.0-2 in the Debian repos has either Metacity, xcompmgr, Compiz, xfwm4, KWin or Mutter as a dependency. Therefore, the...
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of the qualities of a full DE. This contrasts the behaviour of WMs like Metacity and KWin which were not written with the objective of operating independently...
(via a plugin prior to v2.4 and native support from v2.5) IceWM JWM KWin Metacity Marco Openbox Enlightenment (E16 and E17) evilwm interfacewm matchbox Sawfish...
System have the ability to easily use many different window managers – Metacity, used in GNOME 2, and KWin, used in KDE Plasma Workspaces, and many others...
straight OpenSolaris distribution for SPARC (not to be confused with GNOME metacity theme). It was later re-branded as MartUX and the next releases included...
to simplify its implementation, by the second release of GNOME 2, the Metacity window manager had been adopted. With that, it also included an official...
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