metacity-2.4.34

Introduction to metacity

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.4/metacity-2.4.34.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.4/metacity-2.4.34.tar.bz2
Version used:                   2.4.34
Package size:                   1.2 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  15.8 MB
Estimated build time:           1.33 SBU

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

metacity depends on:
xfree86-4.3.0, intltool-0.25 and GTK+-2.2.1
metacity will utilize:
startup-notification-0.5 and GConf-2.2.0

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.