metacity

Thanks to Paolo Borelli, Iain Holmes, Havoc Pennington, Christian Persch, Thomas Thurman, and Alex R.M. Turner for improvements in this version. - Windows on other workspaces which need attention appear in the alt-tab list too (Alex ) (GNOME bug ... [More] 333548) - Remove deprecated function call (Christian ) (GNOME bug 512561) - New release script (Thomas) [...] [Less]

Good evening and welcome back to the Metacity Journal. Tonight’s roundup of all things metacitous includes: Recent bugs: GNOME bug 333548: Alex Turner’s patch is going in tonight just as soon as I’ve rebuilt absolutely everything because my glib ... [More] build was out of date. GNOME bug 358674 (as previously discussed on these pages) continues to be [...] [Less]

A very, very brief journal entry. Metacity allows you to bind keys to horizontal and vertical maximisation of a window. Should this exist, since it’s so rarely used? Should there be a more easily-discoverable way of working? How would it work– right and middle and left click doing different things, as kwin does, or double-clicking [...]

Welcome back to the Metacity Journal; it’s been a month, and Christmas got in the way a little, so this will be rather a highlights reel. Havoc has sorted all source files into subdirectories by purpose, which makes the structure of the program a lot cleaner. Iain has fixed some bugs in the compositor about drawing shadows [...]

I was asked on IRC to explain why it is that programs mostly cannot raise their own windows. The mechanism: gtk_window_show() indirectly calls XRaiseWindow. This causes a ConfigureRequest X event. Metacity will only honour this if: the window ... [More] belongs to the active application (but if there is no active application, any application can raise its windows), or there has [...] [Less]

This is not the Metacity home page. There is no Metacity home page. This is for the same reason there is no flashy logo: Metacity strives to be quiet, small, stable, get on with its job, and stay out of your attention. But this is a place where you can find out about Metacity. The maintainers [...]

Someone asked on IRC whether there had been a Metacity blog post about a certain thing they were interested in. There hadn’t been, but they were interested in seeing one, and I wondered what else people would like to see. So, ask us some questions (presumably questions about Metacity; if you want to know the [...]

So, now that the compositor is in trunk and everyone is excited, this might be a good time to mention some “issues”. Firstly, it seems that there are some weird shadow redrawing problems…these just appeared recently, so it shouldn’t be hard to find the offending commit. I think I know what it is, I just need [...]

Thanks to Iain Holmes and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version. This is the first unstable release to contain the new compositor; please try it out and let us know how it goes for you. Downstream maintainers should note that its GConf key is initially turned off in src/metacity.schemas.in and consider whether to turn [...]

Iain’s compositor is now on trunk since it now meets every requirement I wrote about here. It looks gorgeous. It will be in the next unstable release, which will happen before the weekend. Do not use bucket-o-bling any more; it is a dead branch. Work will continue on trunk. This closes GNOME bug 499081. [...]