Metisse WM: Success!

[arevirlegna]

Hi everyone,

I was very curious about Metisse ever since it started to come standard in Mandriva, but I never had the time to try to install it on Ubuntu. Here are some videos so you see what this is about.
Today, I had a some time to kill while watching reruns of House...back to the topic.

I found a couple of .deb files for nucleo (Xserver needed for metisse) and metisse itself in this archive thread: http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=58604&page=9
The .deb files were provided by cniesel

I just downloaded the .deb files, and double-clicked on them to do the installation (nucleo first, then metisse)

I ran into two problems:
- librplay.so was not found by Metisse...I found it and install it using Synaptic --no problem.
- libdns_sd.so was also not found...I DID NOT find it with Synaptic. But, after some tinkering I realized the interface is equivalent to libdns.so, which I had already installed (it is used by BIND..//..you can find this library with Synaptic) under the name libdns.so.22.1. Solution, I just made the following symlink (make sure you are in /usr/lib)

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libdns.so.22.1.0 libdns_sd.so.1

That's it!

Start nucleo by executing (I have an old latitude d505 with 1024x768 resolution --use the resolution appropriate to your system) :

Xmetisse -ac -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768 :1 &

Start Metisse by executing:

metisse-start-fvwm &

Metisse is based on FVM, so it will look a little spartan to you if you are used to compiz-fusion. However, I am having fun playing with the rotation and scaling of windows --I particularly like the fact that you can scale and resize firefox to see an entire web page!

Cheers!

[davec64]

Cracking stuff!
Now to get someone to continue development!!

[joedulin]

From what I can tell it is still being developed --
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
With source code available at --
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/docs/building.html

But I'm lazy and like my deb packages. So thanks arevirlegna!