Questions tagged [metacity]
Metacity was Gnome's default window manager until Gnome 3.
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Linux Mint KDE - USB mouse left clicks do not work
The issue is not with the mouse, as it works on other computers (and on this one, for about five minutes after a reboot). Right clicks and mouse movement are fine. Left clicks with the touchpad work ...
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set firefox window to open in specific position
I am using ubuntu 10.04 and i want to open firefox window in specific position ,but before calling firefox i need to execute this command metacity --replaceand after a second this command : killall ...
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Emulating WinKey+ArrowKey Functionality from win7 to linux
I much prefer Linux over windows but one thing I've always found win7 to be better at was managing and moving windows to different parts of the screen. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can ...
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In Debian Gnome, windows are maximizing over multiple monitors
This is my screen configuration:
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| | | This is X Screen 1
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install and configure metacity on crunchbang
I am trying to get metacity to work on my #! installation, but instead when I try to run metacity at the command line, it tells me that there is another WM in process.
I then tried to run metacity --...
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Alt-tab icon list in Gnome and metacity?
Can anyone provide a reference or explain how the icons to the alt-tab list is populated? I would like to specify some icons for some programs that do not have icons, e.g. xterm. I'm using Ubuntu 11....
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Way to make display switchable between two windows
I must display two different windows (different application) on a single X display/screen., with a small sticky window that display buttons to switch from one (virtual) screen to the other.
Although ...
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How to disable the keyboard shortcut for inverse video on ubuntu gnome (metacity)?
This doesn't appear to be an option in the normal program for editing keyboard shortcuts, but it is stealing one of my favorite emacs bindings. Might be somehow related to Metacity instead of being a ...
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Multi-row Layout for Workspaces in Metacity
I'm looking for a way to increase number of rows in worskpaces layout.
i.e. 3 cols and 2 rows. Using g-conf I can only change number of worskpaces horizontally, but not vertically, even if it seems ...
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Metacity, put "roll up" back in context menu?
In Metacity, for a while, if you right-clicked a titlebar (or pressed alt-space), "Roll up" was one of the menuitems.
These days, it's gone, which is disappointing since it was the only thing in that ...
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Configure a hotkey for switching viewports in Compiz?
In gconf-editor I can set hotkeys for switching to a specific workspace/viewport when using metacity. I'd like this functionality too for compiz, bit did not find it so far.
What I want is: Super-F1 ...
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Gnome: run program w/o window decorations
I'd like to run RealVNC 3.3.7 without window decorations without using the -fullscreen option. My system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 running GNOME. Is this an Xt option, a Metacity option, a GTK ...
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Metacity/Compiz not staring upon Login Ubuntu 10.10
TLDR: As of this afternoon, I do not have a window manager when I login to Ubuntu 10.10. I would like to have window manager on login without needing to add to startup.
Just started using linux ...
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X11 and Window Manager Confusion
What roles do the Xorg server and a window manager - for example, metacity - play in displaying windows? Does the window manager communicate with the OS or Xorg? Does Xorg then use OpenGl to display ...
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Metacity: Remove title bar from XTerm windows and true maximize
In IceWM I can tell XTerm windows to have no title bar and be truly maximized in ~/.icewm/winoptions:
xterm.XTerm.dTitleBar: 0
xterm.XTerm.startMaximized: 1
With "truly maximized" I mean, that the
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