metacity: Yet another window manager for the GNOME project1


Sun has decided to drop Sawfish in favour of Metacity for its release of GNOME 2.

This decision has been based on issues such as accessibility, maintainability of the code, documentation, multi-head support and a general eagerness from the community to commit to Metacity.

... part of T2, get it here



License: LGPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.18.5

Download: metacity-2.18.5.tar.bz2

T2 source: metacity.cache
T2 source: metacity.conf
T2 source: metacity.desc


Installed size (on reference hardware): 9.03 MB, 212 files

Dependencies (build time detected): atk bash binutils bzip2 cairo cf compositeproto coreutils diffutils expat findutils fixesproto fontconfig freetype gawk gcc gconf gettext glib glibc glitz grep gtk+ imake inputproto kbproto libice libpng libsm libx11 libxau libxcomposite libxcursor libxdmcp libxext libxfixes libxi libxinerama libxrandr libxrender linux-header make mktemp net-tools orbit2 pango perl perl-xml-parser pkgconfig popt randrproto renderproto sed startup-notification sysfiles tar util-linux xextproto xineramaproto xproto zlib

Installed files (on reference hardware): n.a.

