The Metacity package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/2.14/metacity-2.14.5.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/2.14/metacity-2.14.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a14c4a07e456a2590452d6c9db2e5153
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 54.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU
GTK+-2.8.20 and XML::Parser-2.34
startup-notification-0.8 (recommended if you are installing GNOME-2), GConf-2.14.0 (recommended if you are installing GNOME-2), intltool-0.34.2, and libXcomposite*
* libXcomposite can optionally be used, but here's what the Metacity package maintainer has to say about it in the configure script if the package is found: “Not building compositing manager by default now, must enable explicitly to get it. And it doesn't work, so don't bother unless you want to hack on it...”
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/metacity
Metacity will look for an X Render pkg-config file. If you use XFree86 as your X Window system, ensure this file exists (/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc).
Install Metacity by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/metacity \ --sysconfdir=/etc && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.14.5 && install -v -m644 README rationales.txt doc/*.txt \ /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.14.5
--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/2.14.3/gconf/schemas: Use this option if you are installing Metacity for a GNOME-2 installation.
To automatically start the Metacity window manager when you issue the startx command, append to (or create) .xinitrc using the command below (not required if you are installing Metacity for a GNOME-2 installation). Ensure you backup your current ~/.xinitrc before proceeding:
cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" xterm & exec metacity EOF
Last updated on 2006-06-20 18:11:54 -0500