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Metacity (pronounced to rhyme with "capacity" with the stress on the second syllable1) is a Compositing Window Manager used by default in the GNOME Desktop Environment .2 The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License . Before the introduction of Metacity in GNOME 2.2, GNOME used Enlightenment and then Sawfish as its window manager. Although Metacity is part of the GNOME project and designed to integrate into the GNOME desktop, it does not require GNOME to run, and GNOME can be used with different window managers provided that they support the part of the ICCCM specification that GNOME requires. Metacity is implemented in GTK+ , which makes it themeable and makes it blend in with other GTK+ applications. PHILOSOPHY Metacity's focus is on simplicity and usability rather than novelties or gimmicks. Its author has characterized it as a "Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios ."3 THEMES Despite the incomplete state of Metacity theme development documentation, many themes have been written for Metacity. A huge number of such themes can be downloaded from GNOME's art site, art.gnome.org . The most popular theme is Clearlooks 4, which has been GNOME's default theme since version 2.12. CONTROVERSY Metacity, unlike the previous choices for GNOME window manager, has few configuration options and its introduction as the default choice was a controversial one. Those in favour of Metacity say that GNOME is aimed at new computer users who do not need the extreme configurability of . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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