Category Archives: 2.25

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Metacity 2.25.144 released

What is it ?

Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.

What’s changed ?
Thanks to Matthias Claesen, Matt Kraai, Elijah Newren, Owen Taylor, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.

Optimise window property lookup (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 549886)
Fix slip in the above (Matt)
Several memory leaks fixed [...]

Metacity 2.25.89

What is it ?

Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.

What’s changed ?

The maximisation key is a toggle. (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 343824)
“Unmaximise” is now called “restore”. (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 343824)
New thread handling call for gconf (Frederic ) (GNOME bug 565517)
Add screenshot commands back [...]

metacity 2.25.12 out

What is it ?

Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely
with GNOME 2.

What’s changed ?

Fixes to allow building without compositor again (Thomas)
Fixes for -Wall problems (Thomas)
Various tool updates (Thomas)

Translations:

None.

Where can I get it ?

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http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.25/metacity-2.25.21.tar.bz2
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http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.25/metacity-2.25.21.tar.gz

metacity 2.25.13

What is it ?

Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely
with GNOME 2.

What’s changed ?

Add casts to fix failure to build from source on 64bit hosts (Thomas)
(GNOME bug 562106)
Added script to produce annoucements (Thomas) [like the one you're reading now]

Translations:

Jorge González (es)

Where can I get it ?

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2.25.8 released

What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Brian Cameron, Maxim Ermilov, Daniel Macks, Elijah Newren, Frederic Peters, Thomas Thurman, David Trowbridge, and Olav Vitters for improvements in this version.

Reorder compiler flags (Daniel ) (GNOME bug #562033)
Fix compositor switch (Daniel ) (GNOME bug #560990)
Remove [...]

2.25.3

Brown paper bag release which fixes numerous build problems from last night’s release of 2.25.2.  Apologies.
Thanks to Murray Cumming, Thomas Thurman, and Götz Waschk for improvements in this version.

Fix distcheck (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 557356)
add libm reference (Götz ) (GNOME bug 557357)
fix docbook tags (Murray ) (GNOME bug 557337)

3b75c97082aa3a178d8cbb61c940cb59  metacity-2.25.3.tar.bz2
92be1a957eaef575e78e3410c004e92d  metacity-2.25.3.tar.gz

2.25.2 released

This release is broken.  Use 2.25.3 instead.
What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Joe Marcus Clarke, Murray Cumming, Tomas Frydrych, William Lachance, Matthew Martin, Christian Persch, Thomas Thurman, and Vincent Untz for improvements in this version.

Add handler for SIGTERM (Joe ) (GNOME bug [...]

2.25.1 released

Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.

Fix small memory leak, found by Matthias Clasen (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 549952)
Added move_to_center keybinding suggested by Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam (Thomas ) (GNOME bug 549979)
Compositor can be turned on and off from the command line (GNOME bug 545323) (Thomas)

Translations: Khaled Hosny (ar), Petr Kovar (cs), [...]

2.25.0

Thanks to Patrick Niklaus, Ted Percival, Eric Piel, Akira TAGOH, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.

Fix memory allocation problem in struts (Eric) (probably fixes GNOME bug 468075)
Ensure windows which start maximised know where to jump back to, so they don’t warp to other screens (Ted ) (GNOME bug 504692)
Icons for windows which [...]

Branch for stable 2.24

Metacity has been branched for stable 2.24.  Hacking will continue in trunk as 2.25.x.  This doesn’t mean that what’s in the 2.24 branch will necessarily be exactly what will ship; it does mean that what’s in the 2.24 branch is considered stable and changes which affect stability won’t affect it.
New features in trunk will not [...]

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