Metacity is the default window manager in the GNOME 2 desktop environment. It was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3, but is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 which provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.
Questions tagged [metacity]
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Can a Qt5 program running on X disable minimize and close?
I am writing a C++ Qt5 application that runs on X. The window manager it will run under is Metacity. I have a few requirements I'm not sure how to address:
Window must not be able to be closed
Window must not be able to be minimized
Window must…
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Discover what window is active on Gnome/Linux/Ubuntu from Python?
Is there any way to get a list of all windows that are open at present and see what window is at the top (i.e. active?) from Python?
This is using Gnome on Ubuntu Linux.
wnck looks like it might do this, but it's very lacking in documentation.
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How do I change window managers with Yocto Project tools?
My Intent
I have an image generated by BitBake on which I'm interested in changing the window manager to metacity or maybe something similar.
My Process
I've added require recipes-graphics/images/core-image-x11.bb into my core recipe, which provides…
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How to find the X geometry of the root window that excludes any GNOME panels or other GNOME "things"?
I need to find a way to obtain the geometry suitable to pass to some X
window command's -geometry option so that it is guaranteed to cover
all of the X root window that does not overlap with anything GNOME
itself manages (e.g., the GNOME Panel…
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How do I raise window to all workspaces automatically in GNOME2 / metacity?
Let's say I want to run in one workspace
sleep 10 && zenity --warning --text 'Wake up!'
and then I work on other stuffs in a different workspace. How do I get this zenity window pop up in whichever workspace I'm in instead of the original…
Chang Peng
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Qt Application crashes X session (QDialog) under Gnome/Fedora
I wrote a tiny little Qt4 (C++) application, that doesn't really do much except display a list.
It's a QDialog, so pressing escape will close it.
Now, if I do this (run, then close) for about 3 - 8 times in a row, my X session crashes and I get my…
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gnome-shell 3.16 window titles
Before 3.16, it was easy to remove the window titles from maximized windows - just editing the metacity-theme.xml file. However, 3.16 is using client side decorations, and metacity has no control over the window decorations. Is there another way of…
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in Gnome/metacity can we bind a key to a command that requires user input from the keyboard?
All,
I have a little utility written in C that requires the user to press a key to make a menu selection. The code is predictably simple:
system("stty raw");
save_ID = getchar();
system("stty cooked");
It grabs the keystroke and doesn't…
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Qt4: Window appears in the upper left corner on metacity
I have a problem with window appearance in qt4 on Metacity. Initial problem was with the window appearing under another window, from which it was called by clicking the button. I solved that on Compiz by sending _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, but on metacity…
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