What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Marco Pesenti Gritti, Iain Holmes, Josh Lee, Thomas Thurman, and Matthew Wilson for improvements in this version.
– Workspaces whose name is the same as the standard name, plus some string, are not cut off. (Thomas) (GNOME bug 453678)
– Improve compositor performance (Iain) (GNOME bug 522166)
– Draw wallpaper correctly when we start up with compositor (Iain) (GNOME bug 522599)
– Don’t draw shadows on shaped windows unless they have frames (Iain) (GNOME bug 505333)
– Several other smaller compositor fixes (Iain)
– Newly-created keep-above windows get focus (Marco) (GNOME bug 519188)
– Allow moving workspace when dragging with modifier key (Matthew) (GNOME bug 474195)
Translations
Kenneth Nielsen (da), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Vasiliy Faronov (ru), Daniel Nylander (sv), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Woodman Tuen (zh_HK)
Where can I get it ?
http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.23/
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Hey… great job! Just compiled last revision and performance with compositing on is now a lot better without the FPS cap. Also loved the window previews + window icon badge.
Despite the lack of things like sorting windows like tiling or centering, Metacity is starting to rock in more ways than I could imagine – you guys are doing a fine job.