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disciple

I managed to compile metacity with I think no dependencies that aren't already in Puppy. I have a pet if anyone really wants it, but unfortunately the developer is right when he says that it isn't really useable when compiled with --disable-gconf. You can change themes if you want, but you don't seem to be able to do any configuration, and there are no min/max/close buttons, and a lot of windows don't display icons. He says you have to hard-code preferences, but I guess you have to find them first Smile

---Edit---
Aha - I talked to the Metacity guy and apparently the lack of buttons IS a bug. He's asked me to fill a report requesting a --disable-gnome-doc-utils option as well, so if we're lucky Metacity might become compilable without any hacking Smile

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

gconf is not a very heavy dependency. It's one of the first things you compile for gnome -almost everything else depends on it, but it only needs a couple of things like maybe orbit2.

Flash · Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009, 22:50 Post subject:

What is metacity? What is it for? What is it supposed to do? Confused

Lobster · Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009, 23:27 Post subject:

Window Manager, Flash Smile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity

disciple · Posted: Sun 08 Feb 2009, 00:33 Post subject:

Sorry Flash, I should have mentioned - Metacity is the default Gnome window manager, and at one stage the Gimp people said it was the only WM that correctly handled utility windows and stuff. Xfwm seems to me to handle them correctly, but personally I'm not that keen on needing xfce just to manage my windows correctly.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 08 Feb 2009, 02:22 Post subject:

disciple wheres the package?? I've been wanting Metacity for ages, and Gconf is pretty small, here's a package I made a few months back.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · ORBit2-2.14.13-i386.pet

oh if you need Orbit here's that packages also, they both were compiled on puppy 4
ttuuxxx

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

disciple, I just meant that, comparitively, gconf doesn't have many dependencies. And the ones it does have may be needed by other high-level GTK2 or low-level gnome programs.
Though I might not use this myself, I just wanted to help someone else who might. I spent a lot of time coming up with a set of entry-level gnome libs which would provide compatibility for many gnome programs. The version I have ob line is just for gnome-2.10 but may still be of use for some folks:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/Extra/GNOME-COMPAT-2.10/
The GNOME-COMPAT series is supposed to have enough libs to get you going with abiword, gnumeric or many other 'gnomish' programs which don't require all of gnome.
I later worked out a similar set for gnome.2.14, but have never uploaded them. I also have a similar set for gnome-1.4 here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/Extra/Gnome-1.4/

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

metacity is used in austrumi ( with lxpanel)
and i think it support compisite effects also

disciple · Posted: Mon 09 Feb 2009, 06:39 Post subject:

OK, just for you Ttuuxxx I've compiled it with gconf support. I tested, and it works, but you'll have to figure out how to configure it, as it still doesn't have maximise/minimise/close buttons by default, and doesn't know where to look for icons or know about Alt-tab or anything (I tested the gconf configuration with `gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows '<Alt>Tab'`, which worked). I'm wondering if maybe that package doesn't set up gconf properly, and it isn't looking for the schemas file?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 09 Feb 2009, 18:48 Post subject:

Thanks disciple

I'll give a go in a few days after I reboot clean again, I'm working on 4.2 and don't want to complicate issues Smile

I'll try to get going maybe on the weekend. Hopefully by then I would be on track again.
ttuuxxx

disciple · Posted: Mon 09 Feb 2009, 23:40 Post subject:

BTW I think by mistake I packaged metacity-dialog in /usr/bin instead of /usr/lib.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:18 Post subject:

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

Hey ttuuxxx, thanks for bringing this thread up to the surface Smile

I've always wanted to properly set metacity and since dpup already has gconf tools I installed disciple's pet and your command for setting buttons worked!
Surprisingly, it's one of the most used WMs as it's part of gnome and many distributions but documentation for it seems hard to find they all mention some gui setup tools and there's no actual official page for some manual.
I found out how to switch themes with gconf here's the page that has some info on it:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/tree/README

BTW, is there a way to add shade button to metacity, is that a feature at all?
EDIT: Nevermind, I've found the command for setting shade on titlebar double click:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 08:14 Post subject: