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6 METACITY - minimal GTK3 Window Manager
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9 metacity [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=ID] [--sm-dis‐
10 able] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--sync] [--composite] [--no-composite]
11 [--no-force-fullscreen] [--version] [--help]
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14 This manual page documents briefly metacity.
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16 metacity is a minimal X window manager aimed at nontechnical users and
17 is designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop. metacity lacks
18 some features that may be expected by traditional UNIX or other techni‐
19 cal users; these users may want to investigate other available window
20 managers for use with GNOME or standalone.
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23 --display=DISPLAY
24 Connect to X display DISPLAY.
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27 a window manager which is running is replaced by metacity.
28 Users are encouraged to change the GNOME window manager by run‐
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50 Don't make fullscreen windows that are maximized and have no
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57 Show summary of options.
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60 metacity configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and
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68 The original manual page was written by Thom May <thom@debian.org>. It
69 was updated by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux
70 system (with permission to use by others), and then updated by Luke
71 Morton and Philip O'Brien for inclusion in metacity.
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