What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Erwann Chenede and Carlos Garnacho for improvements in this version.
Re-enable cascading (Erwann ) (GNOME bug #529925)
Propagate opacity to frame windows (spec compliance!) (Carlos)
Translations
None this time!
Where can I get it ?
http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.23/
c1c7f4ce88c42515917278d136080537 bzip2
5071f294e6fd4829db60fe7a6a5c705c gzip
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Checkins on trunk
ChangeLog, src/core/window.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/ui/preview-widget.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/Makefile.am, src/metacity.desktop.in by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/core/prefs.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/core/session.c by jensg
ChangeLog, src/core/compositor.c by iain
ChangeLog, src/Makefile.am by lucasr
LinksI’m seeing quite a theme of comparisons with Compiz here.
Tombuntu tells their readers how compositing works in Metacity; a good number of responses both positive and negative.
Jayson Rowe gives Metacity’s compositor […]
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