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| author | Havoc Pennington <hp@src.gnome.org> | 2003-01-10 05:02:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Havoc Pennington <hp@src.gnome.org> | 2003-01-10 05:02:20 +0000 |
| commit | 859c1e752d3bb31059edb6ffa7d16ad06dd81ca8 (patch) | |
| tree | 00fb82fae88773c5062c2874bdcff8ecc7d8a8dd /README | |
| parent | 198398ba887b0a46d572aac884771b3ce0008301 (diff) | |
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ COMPILING METACITY === You need GTK+ 2.0, ideally the latest in the 2.0.x series. For -multihead/Xinerama support to work, you need GTK+ 2.1.x or 2.2. For +multihead/Xinerama support to work, you need GTK+ 2.2. For startup notification to work you need libstartup-notification at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/ or on the GNOME ftp site. You also need GConf 1.2 (unless building a funky @@ -213,6 +213,20 @@ METACITY FEATURES - and much more! well, maybe not a lot more. +HOW TO ADD EXTERNAL FEATURES +=== + +You can write a metacity "plugin" such as a pager, window list, icon +box, task menu, or even things like "window matching" using the +Extended Window Manager Hints. See http://www.freedesktop.org for the +EWMH specification. An easy-to-use library called "libwnck" is +available that uses the EWMH and is specifically designed for writing +WM accessories. + +You might be interested in existing accessories such as "Devil's Pie" +by Ross Burton, which add features to Metacity (or other +EWMH-compliant WMs). + METACITY BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS === |