On 2010-03-23 16:39, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:GNOME is a DE (Desktop Environment). It's standard WM is Metacity (rhymes with mendacity and audacity).Well, you learn something new every day, if you stay awake. (That's what my grandfather always used to say.) I always pronounced it "meta city" (similar to "fat city"). I thought it was an appropriate name, since when used by itself (i.e. without GNOME) you use the "Meta" key (i.e. the Alt key) for just about everything! Oh well.
From an old metacity README:
Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but
rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e.
metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have
something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards.
So, not audacity but opacity.
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