metacity(1) User Commands metacity(1)NAME
metacity, metacity—theme-viewer - GNOME desktop window manager, theme
viewer for the metacity window manager themes
SYNOPSISmetacity [--display=display] [--help] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=id]
[--sm-disable] [--sm-save-file=file] [--version]
metacity-theme-viewer [theme-name]
DESCRIPTIONmetacity is a fully integrated window manager that is designed to inte‐
grate well with the GNOME desktop. To configure metacity, use the
GNOME preferences dialogs.
metacity-theme-viewer is an application for testing and displaying
metacity themes.
Note: The metacity window manager also provides a library called lib‐
metacity-private. This library is licensed under GPL. Please see the
license file at /usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-wm/COPYING.bz2 for implica‐
tions when writing a program which uses this library.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--display=display Specify the remote X display to be used by the
window manager, where display is in the follow‐
ing format:
hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
-?, --help Display detailed usage message.
--replace A window manager which is running is replaced
by metacity. Users are encouraged to change
the GNOME window manager by running the new WM
with the --replace option, and subsequently
saving the session.
--sm-client-id=id Specify a session management id.
--sm-disable Disable the session management.
--sm-save-file=file Specifies the session management file to be
used. By default, the $HOME/.metacity/sessions
file is used.
--version Display the version information for metacity.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
theme-name Specifies the theme that metacity-theme-viewer
should use. If no theme is specified on the
command line, then metacity-theme-viewer loads
the Crux theme. An error message is displayed
if the theme does not exist.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Starting metacity From the Command Line When a metacity is
Already Running
example% metacity--replace
Example 2: Starting metacity With a Non-Default Session Management File
example% metacity
--sm-save-file=filename
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/metacity
The command-line executable for the metacity window manager.
/usr/bin/metacity—theme-viewer
The command-line executable for the metacity theme viewer applica‐
tion.
/usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-wm/COPYING.bz2
Location of license file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │gnome/window-manager/metacity │
├─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
metacity-message(1), metacity-window-demo(1), bzip2(1), attributes(5)
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/
NOTES
Written by Laszlo Kovacs, updated by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc.,
2003, 2006, 2007, 2008.
SunOS 5.11 16 Sep 2008 metacity(1)
