metacity

What is it ? Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2. What’s changed ? Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version. Allow third-party apps to decide whether a window appears on all workspaces ... [More] (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 557536) Fixed keybindings script (again) (Thomas) Translations David Planella (ca), Robert Millan (ca@valencia) Where can I get it [...] [Less]

Brown paper bag release which fixes numerous build problems from last night’s release of 2.25.2.  Apologies. Thanks to Murray Cumming, Thomas Thurman, and Götz Waschk for improvements in this version. Fix distcheck (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 557356) add ... [More] libm reference (Götz ) (GNOME bug 557357) fix docbook tags (Murray ) (GNOME bug 557337) 3b75c97082aa3a178d8cbb61c940cb59  metacity-2.25.3.tar.bz2 92be1a957eaef575e78e3410c004e92d  metacity-2.25.3.tar.gz [Less]

What is it ? Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2. What’s changed ? Thanks to Joe Marcus Clarke, Murray Cumming, Tomas Frydrych, William Lachance, Matthew Martin, Christian Persch, Thomas Thurman, and ... [More] Vincent Untz for improvements in this version. Add handler for SIGTERM (Joe ) (GNOME bug 553980) Minimised windows are necessarily obscured (Matthew [...] [Less]

I tried to discuss the gtk_window_present() problem earlier, but I only managed to confuse myself. So here’s an extra rundown; perhaps we can move towards solving it. The problem is that there’s a call, gtk_window_present(), which is very vaguely ... [More] specified: Presents a window to the user. This may mean raising the window in the stacking order, [...] [Less]

Many people, from various programming communities, have come to the conclusion that if functions are first-class objects they should be allowed properties. For example, if a function in a test suite is checking for regression of the fix to a particular ticket, it could have a property for the ticket number. Then other [...]

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Welcome back to the Metacity journal, your (more or less) daily roundup of all things Metacity. Okay, so it hasn’t happened for six months and I did this one by hand instead of with the script. Anyway, feel free to poke your nose into any of these conversations. GNOME bug 556464: Michael Terry wanted [...]

Window decorations on Windows 3.1 had no close button, so they used to let you double-click the menu button to close a window. When Windows 95 came along, they added a close button, but they kept the double-clicking behaviour. The ability to close a window by double-clicking the menu button has lasted right [...]

Nothing particularly exciting, except that this is the culmination of the 2.23 branch and the version which will be released in tonight’s 2.24 GNOME stable release.  I’m in a hurry at the moment or I’d add a nice picture. Here’s the release notes: ... [More] Metacity is a lightweight compositing window manager for the GNOME desktop. What’s new for 2.24.0: Thanks [...] [Less]

There have been a couple of release candidates put out on 2.23.* ready for the 2.24.0 release, which will be part of GNOME 2.24.0 (we keep sync with GNOME’s version numbering).  The only changes are a fix to GNOME bug 549479, which is about where desktop entries go and took a few tries to [...]