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 Metacity running on GNOME | |
| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2.4.2 5 October 2002 |
| Stable release | 3.50.0[1] 
/ 23 September 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Type | X window manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | blogs |
Metacity /məˈtæsɪti/[2] was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment[3][4] until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3.[5] It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.[6]
The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it was released under the GNU General Public License. Before the introduction of Metacity in GNOME 2.2, GNOME used Enlightenment and then Sawfish as its window manager.[citation needed] Although Metacity was designed to integrate into the GNOME desktop, it does not require it to run,[citation needed] while GNOME can be used with different window managers provided that they support the part of the ICCCM specification that GNOME requires.[citation needed]
Metacity uses the GTK graphical widget toolkit to create its user interface components, which makes it themeable and makes it blend in with other GTK applications. Originally, Metacity used GTK 2 however as of version 3.12.0 it has been ported to GTK 3.[7]
- ^ https://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/3.50/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Metacity README". Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ^ "GNOME 2.2 Release Notes". help.gnome.org. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ "GNOME 2.2 Gains Muscle and Polish". Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ^ Vervloesem, Koen (2009-08-04). "Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3". LWN.net.
- ^ "Details of package gnome-session-flashback in buster". Debian. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ "metacity-3.12.0.news". Retrieved 15 June 2014.