MARCO(1)

💖 MARCO — the MATE Window Manager, bestie edition 💖

okay so welcome to MARCO(1), the manual page for the marco command, living in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighborhood man system. grab a snack, we're doing this 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

Marco — The MATE Window Manager 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

marco [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Marco is a minimal X window manager that uses GTK+ for drawing window frames. it's aimed at non-technical users and it's designed to integrate so well with the MATE desktop. it's giving "I was built to fit in and I ate" 🫶

and here's the iconic line, no cap: Marco is a plain window manager for the adult in you. many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops — Marco is like Cheerios. 🥣 periodt.

the thing is, it lacks some features that traditional UNIX users or other technical girlies might expect 😭 so if that's you, you may want to investigate other available window managers for use with MATE, or as a standalone window manager. do your research bestie, it's fine, no hard feelings 💜

now for the features it does have — several somewhat advanced but common ones, like:

• Window Shading/Roll-Up
• Window/Edge Snapping
• Vertical and Horizontal Maximize
• Always-On-Top
• Sloppy/Mouse Focus and Raising
• and many more... well, not a lot, but some more 😭💀

this manual page documents the marco command. that's literally the assignment. 🎀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d, --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use.
• --sync — makes X calls synchronous. it's giving "slow down and be sure" 🐢
• --replace — replace the currently running window manager with Marco. out with the old, in with the icon ✨
• --sm-disable — disable the connection to the session manager.
• --sm-client-id=ID — specify a session management ID.
• --sm-save-file=FILENAME — restore from a session management savefile. and if no path is specified, marco will look in ~/.config/mate-session/saved-session/ 💾
• -c, --composite — turn compositing ON. you may also use this option to start marco with composite "true transparency" effects. so pretty 🌈
• --no-composite — turn compositing OFF. you may also use this option to start marco without compositing effects.
• --no-force-fullscreen — do not create fullscreen windows without decorations. bestie said "I'm not doing the decoration-less fullscreen thing today" 🙈
• --no-keybindings — have all keybindings disabled on startup. every single one. zero shortcuts. silence. 🤫
• --version — print current version information and exit. quick lil flex 💅
• -?, -h, --help — print standard command line options. the classic "help me help you" 🫶

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💜 CONFIGURATION 💜

you can find Marco configuration via the main MATE menus, under "System->Preferences->Windows" and "System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts" — or by running the commands mate-window-properties and mate-keybinding-properties respectively. 🎀

and if you're feeling advanced (main character energy), you can also configure it directly, via dconf-editor under "/org/mate/marco/". go off 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:

http://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues

not me asking you to file an issue... please do tho, they wanna know 😭🫶

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment by:

Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)

thank you for your service 🫡💖

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

Portions of this manual page were originally written by Luke Morton and Philip O'Brien (2006) for Metacity, but do not bear resemblance to preceding documentation.

glow-up arc, honestly. it's giving "we've evolved" 🦋

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Further information may also be available at: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs

• marco-message(1)
• marco-theme-viewer(1)
• marco-window-demo(1)

go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

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and that's the whole page bestie — brought to you by the MATE Desktop Environment, dated 7 February 2014, filed under MARCO(1) 💅🎀 bye ilysm 🫶