[feeb99a] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY metacity-download-http "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.8/metacity-&metacity-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY metacity-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.8/metacity-&metacity-version;.tar.bz2">
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[903ec33f] | 9 | <!ENTITY metacity-md5sum "c49e4b5575503975516159780855e317">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY metacity-size "2.1 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY metacity-buildsize "46.9 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY metacity-time "0.41 SBU">
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[feeb99a] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[8a69010] | 15 | <sect1 id="metacity" xreflabel="Metacity-&metacity-version;">
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[a0f03b0] | 16 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 17 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 18 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 19 | </sect1info>
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[19aa75a] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="metacity.html" ?>
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[8a69010] | 21 | <title>Metacity-&metacity-version;</title>
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[587ebea] | 22 |
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[feeb99a] | 23 | <sect2>
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| 24 | <title>Introduction to <application>Metacity</application></title>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>The <application>Metacity</application> package contains a window
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| 27 | manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 30 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 31 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 32 | url="&metacity-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 33 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 34 | url="&metacity-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[dc2f5ad] | 35 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &metacity-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[feeb99a] | 36 | <listitem><para>Download size: &metacity-size;</para></listitem>
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[903ec33f] | 37 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[feeb99a] | 38 | &metacity-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 40 | &metacity-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 41 | </sect3>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect3><title><application>Metacity</application> dependencies</title>
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| 44 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[518b9ee0] | 45 | <para><xref linkend="intltool"/>,
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| 46 | <xref linkend="GConf"/> and
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[a8eba10] | 47 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/></para>
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[903ec33f] | 48 | </sect4>
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| 49 |
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[feeb99a] | 50 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[903ec33f] | 51 | <para><xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
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| 52 | <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/Software/xlibs">Xrender</ulink>* and
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| 53 | <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/Software/xlibs">libXcomposite</ulink>**
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| 54 | </para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <para>* <filename class='libraryfile'>libXrender</filename> is included in a
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| 57 | <acronym>BLFS</acronym> <application>X</application> Window System
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| 58 | installation, but the pkgconfig <filename>.pc</filename> file
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| 59 | <application>Metacity</application> looks for is not installed. Satisfy the
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| 60 | requirement by installing an <filename>xrender.pc</filename> file into
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| 61 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig</filename> which can be
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| 62 | downloaded from <ulink
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| 63 | url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~randy/xrender.pc"/>.</para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>** <application>libXcomposite</application> can optionally be used, but
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| 66 | here's what the <application>Metacity</application> package maintainer
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| 67 | has to say about it in the configure script if the package is found:
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| 68 | <quote>Not building compositing manager by default now, must enable explicitly
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| 69 | to get it. And it doesn't work, so don't bother unless you want to hack on
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| 70 | it...</quote></para>
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| 71 | </sect4>
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[feeb99a] | 72 | </sect3>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | </sect2>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <sect2>
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| 77 | <title>Installation of <application>Metacity</application></title>
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| 78 |
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[903ec33f] | 79 | <para>Install <application>Metacity</application> by running the following
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| 80 | commands:</para>
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[feeb99a] | 81 |
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[903ec33f] | 82 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 83 | --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc &&
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[feeb99a] | 84 | make &&
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| 85 | make install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | </sect2>
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| 88 |
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[a3e960e] | 89 | <sect2>
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| 90 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <para><option>--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas</option>:
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| 93 | Use this option if you have the
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| 94 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym>-2</application>
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| 95 | <application>GConf</application> package installed.</para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | </sect2>
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| 98 |
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[feeb99a] | 99 | <sect2>
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| 100 | <title>Configuring <application>Metacity</application></title>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 103 |
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[903ec33f] | 104 | <para>To automatically start the <application>Metacity</application> window
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| 105 | manager when you issue the <command>startx</command> command, append to (or
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| 106 | create) <filename>.xinitrc</filename> using the command below. Ensure you
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| 107 | backup your current <filename>.xinitrc</filename> before proceeding.</para>
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[feeb99a] | 108 |
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| 109 | <screen><userinput><command>cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"</command>
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| 110 | xterm &
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| 111 | exec metacity
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| 112 | <command>EOF</command></userinput></screen>
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| 113 | </sect3>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | </sect2>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <sect2>
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| 118 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 119 |
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[903ec33f] | 120 | <para>The <application>Metacity</application> package contains
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[feeb99a] | 121 | <command>metacity</command>.</para>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | </sect2>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <sect3><title>metacity</title>
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[903ec33f] | 128 | <para><command>metacity</command> is a window manager used mainly by
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| 129 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>.</para>
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| 130 | </sect3>
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[feeb99a] | 131 |
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| 132 | </sect2>
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[587ebea] | 133 |
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| 134 | </sect1>
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| 135 |
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