Metacity... and yuck

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

Trying to use Gnome 2.2, but I can't live with Metacity. It's an 'okay' window manager, but it misses window 'bumping', you know, where windows 'bump' into each other ('resistance', 'magnetic') and also to the screen sides. That is one feature I can't live without. However, did I miss it somewhere? Is it in Metacity?

Also tried sawfish, but it doesn't feel right... I really want to give Gnome 2.2 an honest shot at becoming my desktop environment, but without a decent window manager, that's not gonna happen...

Maybe you have solutions? Or alternatives or..... ?

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject:

Do you know of a Window Manager that has the features you describe? If so, you can use that wm rather than MetaCity.

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g00se · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 16

Try holding down shift key while dragging windows around..

Only thing I'm missing in metacity is the option to make window stay on top.

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

ebrostig: yeah, but the problem is that no window manager ever satisfies me enough :/

They all have features that others don't have and they all don't have features that others do have.

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

im using gnome2.2 with xfm4 (the window manager from xfce4) because i dont like the window-minimization-animation of metacity and because xfm4 has lots of nice themes.
The bumping-effect is present, but afaik only for the screen-edges.

Which was the Window-Manager which has bumping between windows you are refering to?
Was it the KDE-WindowManager?
If so, just kill Metacity and run kwin instead, you can use whatever WM you want.

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

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TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

After I emerged Gnome 2.0.3 I found MetaCity to be terrible. It was fairly fast and it worked but had almost no configuration options compared to Sawfish which is what I'm used to. Also fullscreen mplayer mesed up alot in Metacity.

To remedy this I simply unmerged Metacity and emerged sawfish 1.2 which is so far bug free except for the Dock Level bug which I fixed by changing 1 character in the source. Sawfish 1.2 does anti-aliased text in the title bars too.

To set Sawfish as my default WM I just edited my gnome session using the sessions tool.

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349