If there are two overlapping windows on the screen, people would like to be able to pick up an object from the lower window and drag it to the upper without bringing the lower window to the front, because if that happens the lower window will obscure the upper, and you won’t have anywhere to […]
Xinerama: “As of 2007-09-20 10:44, this project is no longer under active development.”
Does this mean Metacity shouldn’t support it any more? Does everyone use xrandr these days?
Hooray, hooray, the first of May, Metacity unit and regression testing begins today. Okay, so it doesn’t scan as well as the original, but it’s almost as exciting. Well, perhaps. I (Thomas) am planning the framework at present, have something fairly solid in my head now, and will probably post something up […]
Eric Raymond has proposed in his essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, using Linux as a particular example. The idea may be true in the abstract, but in practice even if a project has many users it won’t necessarily have enough eyeballs, and most users of […]
This post is a presentation of the ideas behind GNOME bug 521914.
At present, we ship a program called metacity-dialog, which is often to be found as the sole occupant of /usr/lib/metacity, and it gets spawned on the rare occasions when Metacity needs to ask the user a question. For example, if you attempt to […]
It’s time to talk about session management. It might even be interesting.
The basic idea is that when you log in, you want your desktop to look like it did when you logged out. There is a program called the session manager which starts up all the programs which were running when you logged […]
METACITY_VERBOSE=1 METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 metacity –replace
Shortest post ever.
Tonight or soon:
GNOME bug 448183 - moving and resizing at once is broken
+ thos’s patch about rounded corners on the mailing list
Thomas’s bug queue for the next few days:
GNOME bug 515152 - done
GNOME bug 515402 - transcription error; find correct bug
GNOME bug 509165 - visibility rules are more complex than I can deal with; comment this and find an answer
GNOME bug 151818 - needs a separate blog post to itself (FIXME)
GNOME […]
So, now that the compositor is in trunk and everyone is excited, this might be a good time to mention some “issues”.
Firstly, it seems that there are some weird shadow redrawing problems…these just appeared recently, so it shouldn’t be hard to find the offending commit. I think I know what it is, I just need […]
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