Some of you use metacity only without Gnome ?

[burek]

WINDOWS MANAGER


Do you use metacity only without Gnome desktop?







(This is taking very few memory this way and gives beautiful desktop.)

[tomcheng76]

I didnt try this out
because Ubuntu default ship with gnome and metacity, which i am pretty happy with them
although sometimes the icons in gnome-panel suddenly move, i have no idea above it:(
would you mind post us a snapshot about how its looklike and the system monitor
many thanks :)

[burek]

I didnt try this out
because Ubuntu default ship with gnome and metacity, which i am pretty happy with them
although sometimes the icons in gnome-panel suddenly move, i have no idea above it:(
would you mind post us a snapshot about how its looklike and the system monitor
many thanks :)

try :

apt-get install metacity


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity
http://gnomethemes.org/pre/Aqua-Advanced-Pre.jpg
http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~random/pub/screenshots/screenshot-laetitia.jpg

[deanlinkous]

what is used for app selection? minimized windows etc...

[burek]

what is used for app selection? minimized windows etc...

it works and you can use the keys and shortcuts you define with :
gnome-panel &


xterm & gnome-panel &

[deanlinkous]

well than that isn't JUST metacity :D

[coder_]

I'd like to use Metacity with another panel. I've been wanting to for a while now, and I've been playing with various DEs and WMs lately.

I really like IceWM, but the taskbar is on the left monitor (and won't move), which I can't see very well, and also, somehow I broke right click menu popup. :S

I love IceWM, but I can't figure out how to fix those problems.

I never thought of Metacity by itself for some reason, thanks :) I'll be trying it out. I just need to find a nice small panel.

[deanlinkous]

pypanel, fbpanel, fspanel all good simple panels

[midwinter]

Odd choice.. I would not use Metacity by itself.. it's perhaps one of the slowest and less featureful window manager out there. I think Openbox or Fluxbox or at a stretch even xfwm would be better choices than Metacity.

[burek]

I'd like to use Metacity with another panel. I've been wanting to for a while now, and I've been playing with various DEs and WMs lately.

I really like IceWM, but the taskbar is on the left monitor (and won't move), which I can't see very well, and also, somehow I broke right click menu popup. :S

I love IceWM, but I can't figure out how to fix those problems.

I never thought of Metacity by itself for some reason, thanks :) I'll be trying it out. I just need to find a nice small panel.

metaacity it has no workspace wrapping , neither edge resitance

fluxbox has but cant double click on titelbar to maximize by default

others can both but are too big

openbox has no workspace wrapping

nothing is perfect and light

[burek]

besides, xfwm is too heavy for my old pc
sawfish takes a bit to much

[Circus-Killer]

metaacity it has no workspace wrapping , neither edge resitance

fluxbox has but cant double click on titelbar to maximize by default

others can both but are too big

openbox has no workspace wrapping

nothing is perfect and light

okay, just wanted to rectify one thing, metacity does have edge resistance, other than that, all seems good. and i agree with you, nothing is perfect and light.

it is also again personal preference. you'll never get everyone using the same window manager or DE. and thats why we love linux so much. ;)

[Kindred]

openbox has no workspace wrapping

What do you mean exactly?

If you mean dragging windows across workspaces, the way to do it in openbox is to drag a window and while dragging roll the mouse wheel up or down. It's MUCH quicker than dragging all the way across workspaces.

If you mean shortcut keys wont wrap then that's just a couple of edits in rc.xml

[burek]

What do you mean exactly?

If you mean dragging windows across workspaces, the way to do it in openbox is to drag a window and while dragging roll the mouse wheel up or down. It's MUCH quicker than dragging all the way across workspaces.

If you mean shortcut keys wont wrap then that's just a couple of edits in rc.xml


right, indeed,

I still cannot get use to the wheel dragging ...

I used too a plugin that make edge resistance = 0

Do you know if openbox has a plugin for dragging windows across workspaces ?

thx

[Kindred]

right, indeed,

I still cannot get use to the wheel dragging ...

I used too a plugin that make edge resistance = 0

Do you know if openbox has a plugin for dragging windows across workspaces ?

thx

No, I don't believe there is one. I used to use the application 'brightside' which does this for metacity, just in case you didn't know about it.

[burek]

No, I don't believe there is one. I used to use the application 'brightside' which does this for metacity, just in case you didn't know about it.

Coool, I love your information !!
I think fastest is

OPENBOX
but between FLUXBOX and metacity : dont know


I like very much the cool ALT TAB of METACITY

ON the other hand, I couldnt make in METACITY :

ALT + RightMOUSE working to RESIZE windows : do you know !

If yes, I get stuck with metacity !! sure !!