metacity

Although it’s common for Metacity themes to have centred titles, there are still several themes which have the title justified to the left or right . GNOME bug 612940 makes the not unreasonable suggestion that the justification should be swapped when the system is running in a language such as Hebrew, Arabic, or Urdu [...]

Although it’s common for Metacity themes to have centred titles, there are still several themes which have the title justified to the left or right . GNOME bug 612940 makes the not unreasonable suggestion that the justification should be swapped when ... [More] the system is running in a language such as Hebrew, Arabic, or Urdu which … Continue reading Justified and ancient [Less]

Eugeni Dodonov has asked for a keybinding to return to the previous workspace. For example, if you were on workspace 1 and switched to workspace 2, then pressing this key would jump back to workspace 1. Pressing it again would jump to workspace 2. ... [More] Apparently this is a standard keybinding in xfwm4. This is GNOME … Continue reading Going back to the previous workspace [Less]

Eugeni Dodonov has asked for a keybinding to return to the previous workspace. For example, if you were on workspace 1 and switched to workspace 2, then pressing this key would jump back to workspace 1. Pressing it again would jump to workspace 2. Apparently this is a standard keybinding in xfwm4. This [...]

Metacity allows you to keep your windows on workspaces.  You can have between one and 36 of them.  (The number 36 is rather arbitrary; it’s described as “a fixed maximum to prevent making the desktop unusable by accidentally asking for too many ... [More] workspaces.“) You can switch between these workspaces either by using the switcher applet, … Continue reading Switching between workspaces [Less]

Metacity allows you to keep your windows on workspaces.  You can have between one and 36 of them.  (The number 36 is rather arbitrary; it’s described as “a fixed maximum to prevent making the desktop unusable by accidentally asking for too many workspaces.“) You can switch between these workspaces either by using the switcher applet, or [...]

When you press alt-tab under Metacity, the windows you see in the switcher are displayed in most-recently-used (MRU) order, except that minimised windows are always sorted to the end, and urgent (“needs attention”) windows are sorted to the ... [More] beginning. A comment in the source describes this as “Windows sellout mode”. In a recent blog post, Aza [...] [Less]

When you press alt-tab under Metacity, the windows you see in the switcher are displayed in most-recently-used (MRU) order, except that minimised windows are always sorted to the end, and urgent (“needs attention”) windows are sorted to the ... [More] beginning. A comment in the source describes this as “Windows sellout mode”. In a recent blog post, … Continue reading The order of windows in alt-tab [Less]

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx was released last week. It modifies the order of the titlebar buttons so that they all appear on the left-hand side. Some people would like the buttons in another order. This post explains how to change the order of the buttons. Firstly, decide which buttons you want: Here are your choices. Only the top [...]

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx was released last week. It modifies the order of the titlebar buttons so that they all appear on the left-hand side. Some people would like the buttons in another order. This post explains how to change the order of the buttons. ... [More] Firstly, decide which buttons you want: Here are your choices. Only … Continue reading Setting the button order [Less]