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

This entry was written by jdub, posted on March 23, 2006 at 07:57, filed under Uncategorized and tagged . 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

6 Trackbacks

  1. By AHHH I CAN SEE THE TUNGSTEN on March 22, 2006 at 20:12

    [IMG]http://perkypants.org/blog/2006/03/23/rocket-powered-cheerios/ fluxbox rules. ‘cept when it doesn’t. tags:

  2. By Planet Ubuntu on March 22, 2006 at 22:39

    March 22, 2006 08:57 PM

  3. By I still don't have a title on March 24, 2006 at 18:55

    20:52 < fusibou> ifjdub gets excited over edge flipping and window matching, he’s got a low threshold 20:52 < fusibou> XGL would probably send him into fatal seizures

  4. By GNOME - SWiK on March 24, 2006 at 20:18

    [IMG alt] 20:52 < fusibou> ifjdub gets excited over edge flipping and window matching, he’s got a low threshold 20:52 < fusibou> XGL would probably send him into fatal seizures

  5. By Planet Debian on March 25, 2006 at 10:24

    Jeff, if the Metacity window manager is Cheerios, and I agree that others do resemble Marshmallow Froot Loops (possibly sprinkeld with E), then ion must be a subcutaneous nuclear power cell. I’ll take that over a rocket engine on my cereal box any day.

  6. By Planet GNOME on March 27, 2006 at 22:06

    [IMG ] 20:52 < fusibou> ifjdub gets excited over edge flipping and window matching, he’s got a low threshold 20:52 < fusibou> XGL would probably send him into fatal seizures