Metacity

Download Source:	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.30/metacity-2.30.3.tar.bz2

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Introduction to Metacity

The Metacity package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows.

Project Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/

Dependencies

Required

• Gtk2
• XML::Parser
• Zenity

Optional

• startup-notification
• GConf
• intltool
• libcm (Required for composite manager support)

Configuration Information

The following override default configuration options.

--disable-startup-notification: disable metacity's startup notification support

--enable-compositor: enable metacity's compositing manager. Enabling requires libcm.

--disable-xsync: disable metacity's use of the XSync extension.

--disable-render: disable metacity's use of the RENDER extension.

--disable-shape: disable metacity's use of the shaped window extension.

--disable-xinerama: disable metacity's use of the Xinerama extension

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/metacity \
    --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.30.3 &&
install -v -m644 README rationales.txt doc/*.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.30.3

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/metacity \
    --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas &&
make

Install the package

make install

N32

Compile the package:

CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib32/metacity \
    --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas &&
make

Install the package

make install

64Bit

Compile the package:

CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/metacity \
    --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.30.3 &&
install -v -m644 README rationales.txt doc/*.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.30.3

Contents

Installed Directories:	None
Installed Programs:	metacity-message, metacity-window-demo, metacity, metacity-theme-viewer
Installed Libraries:	libmetacity-private.so, libmetacity-private.la, libmetacity-private.a