Rocket Powered Cheerios

Metacity is a “boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”

Cheerios

But adding tools like Brightside and Devilspie to the mix is like strapping a rocket to your Cheerios box. They turn metacity from a lean, mean window managing machine into a lean, mean, fully programmable, bling-to-the-max window managing powerhouse!

Cheerios Blastoff

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on March 23, 2006 at 07:57, filed under Uncategorized and tagged GNOME. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Tom von S.
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 08:12 | Permalink |

    How much time did you spend on this, seriously? ;)

  2. Red/Brian
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 08:49 | Permalink |

    I’ve been a Gnome/Metacity/Sawfish user since Gnome 1.2 and the fact that they dropped edge flipping in 2.0 was almost enough to make me switch to another DE/WM.

    Over the years I’ve seen all my favorite features come back, But this one completes the circle. I’ve got edge flipping and life is good.

    This is better than the day I discovered vertical maximize under Keyboard->Shortcuts.

  3. Ken
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 10:54 | Permalink |

    I’m trying to figure out why I want a rocket engine (or two, as in the photo) attached to my box of Cheerios. I always thought they taste just fine without rocket fuel!

  4. Jcdubacq
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 20:26 | Permalink |

    Metacity still lacks the Pack-window-{left,right,top,bottom} abilities from sawfish, which moves the window in the given direction till it meets either the border of the screen or the border of some other windows (nautilus icons not included).

  5. Phil
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 02:59 | Permalink |

    Ken: that’s why they’re not built-in!

    Three cheers for extensible architectures.

  6. Phil
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 04:21 | Permalink |

    BTW, my favorite rocket pack for metacity is x2x: http://x2x.dottedmag.net/trac/do

    Use an extra computer as an additional X display. (I know, it’s technically not a metacity hack, but it’s super-useful.)

  7. Martin Bishop
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 06:25 | Permalink |

    I still can’t believe they ditched sawfish, you want lean, mean, clean, and extensible? doesn’t get any better than sawfish