MUTTER(1) General Commands Manual MUTTER(1)NAME
MUTTER - Clutter based compositing GTK2 Window Manager
SYNOPSIS
mutter [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=ID] [--sm-disable] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--version] [--help]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly mutter.
mutter is a minimal X window manager aimed at nontechnical users and is designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop. mutter lacks
some features that may be expected by traditional UNIX or other technical users; these users may want to investigate other available window
managers for use with GNOME or standalone.
OPTIONS --display=DISPLAY
Connect to X display DISPLAY.
--replace
a window manager which is running is replaced by mutter. 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
mutter configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts on the menu-panel. Advanced configuration
can be achieved directly through gsettings.
SEE ALSO mutter-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 mutter.
11 February 2006 MUTTER(1)
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metacity(1) User Commands metacity(1)NAME
metacity, metacity--theme-viewer - GNOME desktop window manager, theme viewer for the metacity window manager themes
SYNOPSIS
metacity [--display=display] [--help] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=id] [--sm-disable] [--sm-save-file=file] [--version]
metacity-theme-viewer [theme-name]
DESCRIPTION
metacity is a fully integrated window manager that is designed to integrate 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 libmetacity-private. This library is licensed under GPL. Please see the
license file at /usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-wm/COPYING.bz2 for implications 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 following 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 application.
/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 |SUNWgnome-wm |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|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)