On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:33, Rovanion Luckey <[email protected]>wrote:
> > well, either compiz or metacity as both are not possible ;) I think that >> was what Florian meant. >> >> > Well yes it is very much possible to use both Metacity and Compiz at the > same time, I am so doing right now. But the whole business is kind of a mess > so it is not too odd that you mix things together. > > Metacity is on a default Ubuntu desktop the window decorator, it draws the > borders around the application. Compiz is the window mananger, it is what > dictates the rules for how windows are handled and draws animations and > other effects. Both Metacity and especially Compiz have many more functions > than what is used in the default Ubuntu setup. > > Now it might turn out that I have done some incorrect wording, which is not > absolutely improbable considering the mess, so I would recommend a slightly > less nit-picky approach. > hahaaah, yeah you're right, this is a great mess. That is precisely why Metacity keeps quiet in the background, mature and stable, not logo, no homepage. my findings: gtk-window-decorator is the module within Metacity responsible for window decoration. It can be used by other WMs without loading all the rest of Metacity..
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