Sawfish is dead. I know, I love the million keybinding options, and the cool regexp-based window matching, but as the xorg server moves forward, sawfish stays maddeningly still. So here are some things I’ve figured out to make metacity a little more like home for us sawfish people.
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\nThere are a ton of options for metacity that can only be found in gconf-editor. Fire it up and navigate to apps\/metacity. You’ll find a whole lot of things you can change that aren’t apparant from the bare-bones preferences pane. You’ll find a lot of keybindings and some advanced behavior.<\/p>\n
If you love matched windows, get Devilspie<\/a>. It’s not quite as insanely featureful as Matched Windows, and you can’t configure it with a user interface, but it gets the job done. With the sample configuration and a bit of experimenting, you can figure out how to duplicate most of the effects you’re used to.<\/p>\n If you wish metacity had edge resistance or magnetism when moving windows, there’s a bug<\/a> in bugzilla that has a patch<\/a> to add these features to metacity. If you’re trying to compile metacity from CVS, I made my own version of the patch<\/a> that applies correctly. If you’re not comfortable applying patches, then you’re going to have to learn. Get the source from cvs, and build it once normally*<\/b>. Then go to the metacity\/ directory, and type<\/p>\n cat [location of patch] | patch -p 1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You should be able to build it just fine.<\/p>\n The last thing I really missed from metacity was the “maximize to fill” keybindings that sawfish has. I filed my own bug<\/a> and even made my own patch<\/a> against CVS which adds the keybindings to the list. You can apply it after my resistance patch above. It’ll talk about “hunk offsets” but that’s normal.<\/p>\n I’m a gnome hacker now!<\/p>\n *The resistance patch affects a file that doesn’t seem to exist until the program is built once.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sawfish is dead. I know, I love the million keybinding options, and the cool regexp-based window matching, but as the xorg server moves forward, sawfish stays maddeningly still. So here are some things I’ve figured out to make metacity a little more like home for us sawfish people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}