%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Metacity The Metacity package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &metacity-md5sum; Download size: &metacity-size; Estimated disk space required: &metacity-buildsize; Estimated build time: &metacity-time; , , and , Xrender*, and libXcomposite** * libXrender is included in a BLFS X Window System installation, but the pkgconfig .pc file Metacity looks for is not installed. Satisfy the requirement by installing an xrender.pc file into /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig which can be installed as: cat > /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc << "EOF" prefix=/usr/X11R6 exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Name: Xrender Description: X Render Library Version: 0.8.3 Cflags: -I${includedir} -I/usr/X11R6/include Libs: -L${libdir} -lXrender -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 EOF ** libXcomposite can optionally be used, but here's what the Metacity package maintainer has to say about it in the configure script if the package is found: Not building compositing manager by default now, must enable explicitly to get it. And it doesn't work, so don't bother unless you want to hack on it... Install Metacity by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc && make Now, as the root user: make install --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas: Use this option if you have the GNOME-2 GConf package installed. To automatically start the Metacity window manager when you issue the startx command, append to (or create) .xinitrc using the command below. Ensure you backup your current ~/.xinitrc before proceeding. ~/.xinitrc cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" xterm & exec metacity EOF Installed Program Installed Libraries Installed Directories metacity None None Short Descriptions metacity is a window manager used mainly by GNOME. metacity