February 28, 2009 – 7:16 pm
I didn’t expect to get useful suggestions from the Linux Haters’ blogs, but here’s something that might fly: they point out that warnings from the window manager end up in .xsession-errors where nobody ever sees them. But now that we’re using Zenity for dialogues throughout, there’s no reason why we can’t adapt meta_warning() to put up [...]
February 23, 2009 – 12:20 pm
Someone is working on a Metacity theme editor called Metacity Themer. It appears to take rather a different approach from Opacity; it’ll be interesting to see how this turns out. I’m not sure whether I should abandon Opacity; I wasn’t working on it anyway much (though I had thought about it quite a [...]
February 20, 2009 – 9:31 pm
It has been pointed out that session management in Metacity is currently a bit broken. Firstly, it leaves a lot of useless files around. I assume that the only session file which is really necessary is the most recent one. Secondly, I recently found and fixed a bug where Metacity actually crashed [...]
February 19, 2009 – 10:45 am
I’m away on business until the middle of next week, so posting here will be scarce.
February 9, 2009 – 4:21 pm
At present the system menu, which you see when you right-click anywhere on the titlebar, left-click the menu button, or right-click an entry on the pager, is hard-coded separately into Metacity and libwnck, and required to be the same in both places.
I’ve been considering the idea of making it a property on the root window [...]
February 8, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 351647 the suggestion is raised that there should be a setting to prevent Metacity from managing certain screens. At present, Metacity manages all screens on its display. Thomas provided a patch which allowed “–ignore-screens=1,3” to be passed on the command line. The reporter would prefer a GConf key.
I [...]
February 7, 2009 – 10:52 pm
Almost everything we bind keys to could be done with an external application via EWMH, and on my computer there’s no perceptible speed penalty. (I’m sure there is on slower machines.) Perhaps there should be a configure switch not to include the code to do everything except the things which pop up switchers (and another [...]
February 7, 2009 – 9:55 pm
I don’t know why switching continues to be a source of squibs, but there it is. In GNOME bug 570817 someone is suggesting a way to walk through workspaces (presumably only populated ones, but that’s not clear) in the same way that hitting and immediately releasing alt-tab moves you to the next window without [...]
February 7, 2009 – 8:56 pm
Four points of note in theming today. Your thoughts on these, gentle reader, are appreciated.
Screwtape has been working on a Metacity theme to look like Mac OS Classic. The resulting list of tips and tricks for writing Metacity themes ought to be required reading for all themers. Screwtape, would you mind if we linked to [...]
February 6, 2009 – 4:24 am
I mentioned a while back that Human is the slowest of all common themes, taking 6ms to draw the average frame. It occurred to me to wonder why this might be, of course, so I took the opportunity to instrument it. Here are the results. The height of the diagram spans six milliseconds. You will [...]
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