Re: Metacity window manager
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:13, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
> > > IMHO Metacity isn't meant to be a full-fledged window manager (as is for
> > > example WM or Fluxbox), but instead it has to be used with the GNOME
> > > environment, which provides the "additional components", such as
> > > gnome-panel for the taskbar.
> >
> > Uh, please define "full-fledged window manager", please. A window manager
> > manages windows. Anything else is extra.
> >
> > Not that I'd ever be caught dead defending Metashitty, but it's doing
> > exactly what it's supposed to be doing.
>
> Maybe, but it doesn't do what I want and it gives no info how to change
> this. No matter how good Metacity in it's current state is not usful for
> me.
I believe Ricky/Mark are correct. The metacity package indeed installs a
window manager (and just a window manager). The WM/Fluxbox packages are
actually simple "desktop environments", because they bundle panels, etc.
I suspect the extra bits you want to complement Metacity can be obtained
by installing the gnome-panel package. Or, as Ricky says, any other
panel should work with Metacity. That would be odd, but doable.
I'm not surprised that the Metacity distribution-independent
documentation doesn't tell you what *Debian* package to install.
Regards,
Simon
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