METACITY(1) METACITY(1)

NAME
METACITY - minimal GTK2 Window Manager

SYNOPSIS
metacity [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=ID] [--sm-disable]
[--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly metacity.

metacity is a minimal X window manager aimed at nontechnical users and is designed to integrate
well with the GNOME desktop. metacity lacks some features that may be expected by traditional
UNIX or other technical users; these users may want to investigate other available window man‐
agers for use with GNOME or standalone.

OPTIONS
--display=DISPLAY
Connect to X display DISPLAY.

--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 or -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=FILENAME
Load a session from FILENAME.

--version
Print the version number.

-?, --help
Show summary of options.

CONFIGURATION
metacity configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and Preferences->Keyboard Short‐
cuts on the menu-panel. Advanced configuration can be achieved directly through gconf editing
(gconf-editor or gconftool-2).

SEE ALSO
metacity-message(1)

AUTHOR
The original manual page was written by Thom May <thom@debian.org>. It was updated by Akira
TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (with permission to use by others), and
then updated by Luke Morton and Philip O’Brien for inclusion in metacity.

11 February 2006 METACITY(1)