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

URL: http://people.redhat.com/~hp/metacity/

Author: The GNOME Project <gnome-devel-list [at] gnome [dot] org>
Maintainer: Susanne Klaus <vadja [at] gmx [dot] de>

License: LGPL
Status: Stable
Version: 3.58.1

Download: https://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/3.58/ metacity-3.58.1.tar.xz

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

Build time (on reference hardware): 25% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 2.30 MB, 130 files

Dependencies (build time detected): at-spi2-core bash cairo coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gdk-pixbuf gettext grep gsettings-desktop-schemas gtk+ harfbuzz libcanberra libgtop libice libsm libx11 libxcb libxcomposite libxcursor libxdamage libxext libxfixes libxinerama libxpresent libxrandr libxrender libxres linux-header make pango python sed startup-notification tar vulkan-headers xorgproto xz

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).