METACITY(1)

💅 METACITY — minimal GTK3 Window Manager

okay bestie, so you know how metacity is that whole minimal GTK3 window manager situation? yeah. that one. this is its manual page, and it's in the General Commands Manual section, and we're gonna go through the whole thing together, no skips, no cap. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

metacity [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=ID]
[--sm-disable] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--sync] [--composite] [--no-
composite] [--no-force-fullscreen] [--version] [--help]

that's the whole vibe. every flag. look at her go. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this manual page documents metacity, briefly. like, briefly briefly. that's the assignment and we're respecting it.

metacity is a minimal X window manager and it's literally aimed at nontechnical users — like, that's the whole point of her — and she's designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop. she's the chill one. she's the "it just works" one.

but here's the tea 🍓: metacity lacks some features that traditional UNIX users or other technical users might be expecting. so if that's you, bestie, the manpage itself is saying you may want to go investigate other available window managers for use with GNOME or standalone. no hard feelings, it's just not that kind of girl.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --display=DISPLAY — connect to the X display DISPLAY. that's it, that's the whole thing, she just goes where you point her. 🌈
• --replace — if a window manager is already running, metacity replaces it. and lowkey the manpage has thoughts: users are encouraged to change the GNOME window manager by running the new WM with the --replace or -replace option, and subsequently saving the session. so do the replace, then save the session. in that order. periodt. 💅
• --sm-client-id=ID — specify a session management ID. give her the ID, she'll take it from there.
• --sm-disable — disable the session management. entirely. we're not doing session management today. 🙈
• --sm-save-file=FILENAME — load a session from FILENAME. not save — load. iykyk.
• --sync — make X calls synchronous. that's the description, verbatim, she's a woman of few words.
• --composite — turn compositing on ✨
• --no-composite — turn compositing off 💀
• --no-force-fullscreen — don't make fullscreen windows that are maximized and have no decorations. so, like, leave those particular windows alone, okay?
• --version — print the version number. the receipts. 🧾
• -?, --help — show summary of options. she'll give you the rundown.

🦋 CONFIGURATION 🦋

you can find metacity configuration under Preferences->Windows and Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts on the menu-panel. very user-friendly, very demure.

and if you wanna get advanced with it? you can achieve advanced configuration directly through gsettings. main character energy only. 👑

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• metacity-message(1)

💖 AUTHOR 💖

the original manual page was written by Thom May <thom@debian.org>. then it was updated by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system — with permission to use by others, iconic of him — and then it was updated by Luke Morton and Philip O'Brien for inclusion in metacity. a whole collab. a whole group project that actually got finished. slay. 🫶

and that's the page bestie!! dated 16 May 2013, straight out of the metacity source. she's been serving minimal GTK3 window management since way before it was cool. no cap. 💜