Metacity-2.10.1

The Metacity package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows.

Package Information

Metacity Dependencies

Required

intltool-0.33, GConf-2.10.0, and GTK+-2.6.7

Optional

startup-notification-0.8, Xrender*, and libXcomposite**

* libXrender is installed during an XFree86 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 (not applicable if you have Xorg installed):

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...”

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.10.1 &&
install -v -m644 README rationales.txt doc/*.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/metacity-2.10.1

cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
xterm &
exec metacity
EOF