METACITY-MESSAGE(1)

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💌 METACITY-MESSAGE 💌

okay bestie, so metacity-message is literally just a lil command that sends a message to Metacity. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's a messenger, not a main character. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

METACITY-MESSAGE [ restart | reload-theme | enable-keybindings |
disable-keybindings | enable-mouse-button-modifiers |
disable-mouse-button-modifiers | toggle-verbose ]

so you run it, you pick ONE of those words up there, and it goes and tells Metacity what to do. that's the whole deal 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this manual page documents briefly the metacity-message. and ngl, there's a reason it's only briefly — this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one ourselves, bestie. iconic behavior honestly 💅

the tea is: metacity-message sends a specified message to metacity(1). like passing a note in class but the class is your window manager 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's the menu, pick your fighter. one at a time, no cap:

  • restart — restarts metacity(1) which is running. yes, the one that's alive right now. bye babe, hi babe 💀
  • reload-theme — reloads a theme which is specified on the gsettings database. new fit, who dis 👑
  • enable-keybindings — enables all of keybindings which is specified on the gsettings database. keys, but make them work 🔥
  • disable-keybindings — disables all of keybindings which is specified on the gsettings database. keys, but make them not work 🙈
  • enable-mouse-button-modifiers — enables move/resize operations while pressing a modifier key. hold the modifier, drag the window, live your truth 🖱️✨
  • disable-mouse-button-modifiers — disables move/resize operations while pressing a modifier key. no more sneaky dragging 🚫
  • toggle-verbose — turns debug messages on or off. flip it, see the tea, flip it back 🍓

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

(go read that one too, bestie, it's the whole point of all this 🧚)

💖 AUTHOR 💖

this manual page was written by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to them fr fr, they did the work so we could vibe 🌈

and that's the page!! it's from the General Commands Manual, dated 16 May 2013, and it's the metacity-message one. periodt. ⭐💜
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