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Metacity was Gnome's default window manager until Gnome 3.

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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 11.04 with Gnome 2 (Ubuntu Classic) and metacity as…
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Shortcuts to move windows across multiple screens in Gnome

I've two screens next each other and I'm running Gnome (Metacity 2.22). I use Xinerama to setup resolution and position for the screens. Using OpenSuse 11.1. I would like to use the keyboard to move windows from one screen to the other one. I found…
Roberto Aloi
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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 metacity (for removing title bar in windows), i…
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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 replicate the functionality of holding the windows key…
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Double click on left hand side icon to close window?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and if I open a window I want to double click on icon on the left hand side of the window in order to close the window which is the default behavior in Windows.
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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 things? Can someone explain exactly what the Xorg…
ell
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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 I thought this would be an easy task for a simple…
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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 option, what? Is this something I can even control…
John Kugelman
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In Debian Gnome, windows are maximizing over multiple monitors

This is my screen configuration: +----------------+----------------+ | | | | | | This is X Screen 1 | | | Two 1680x1050…
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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 general gnome setting. I know this can be fixed…
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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 to be possibile. I'm working on a Ubuntu 11.04…
Juan Sebastian Totero
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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 menu I have ever selected. Is there a way to…
Ken
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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 XTerm*maximize: true -Option in .Xresources…
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How to add new entry in context menu in Gnome?

There is a very useful entry in gnome's context menu when clicking on any file: Open with gedit (the first entry in the context menu). I'd like to add similar one, for my second favourite editor. The question is how to do it?
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Metacity toggle fullscreen not working under Lucid; worked with Karmic

I'm working on a 11" screen, so I frequently want to use applications in fullscreen. I'm no expert on GNOME, but I remember doing a search a while back, and finding out about metacity, and how to use that to allow any window to be put in fullscreen.…
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