Metacity is not developed or supported by X.org. This question appears to be related to a UI issue with Metacity. You'll want to file a bug report at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ or find a GNOME mailing list/form and ask the question there.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Huaxin Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I have a system set up this way: kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12, no desktop > environment (no gnome or kde), metacity 2.28.0-14.fc12.i686 (installed by > yum), and my own application (full-screen) which may generate some dialogs > when certain operations are performed. > > > > I could not change settings (such as num_workspaces, > action_right_click_titlebar) for matacity. > > > > `gconftool-2 --type=int --set /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces > 1` reported no errors or warnings, in fact, nothing. > > `gconftool-2 --get /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces` would > return the value I had set (in this case, 1). > > > > However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still show the > menu item of “Move to Another Workspace” and “Workspace 2/3/4” on a menu one > level down. > > > > Similarly for action_right_click_titlebar > > `gconftool-2 --type =string --set > /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar none` reported > nothing. > > `gconftool-2 --get > /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar` would return the > value I had set (“none”) > > > > However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still prompt a > menu, as if no change has been made on action_right_click_titlebar. > > > > I could tell metacity was involved in the running of the application from the > cursor - when metacity was started before the application started the cursor > for the root window would be XC_left_ptr, otherwise it would be a black “X”. > > > > However, as gnome (or any other desktop environment) was not running, I am > not sure if gconftool-2 can enforce the settings on metacity. > > > > Another issue, which may be related is > > Changing the theme of metacity by > > `gconftool-2 --type=string /schemas/apps/metacity/general/theme Nodoka` > (Nodoka is only used as an example, using any other theme would give the same > result). > > > > or changing a particular value of a theme by editing the XML file > (/usr/share/themes/Nodoka/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml) > > would not make any difference whatsoever in appearance (e.g. titlebar’s > width, height, padding height, etc) > > > > Any advice on how I can apply changes on metacity, or at least how to set > num_workspaces = 0 and action_right_click_titlebar = none? > > > > Thanks very much! > > > > Huaxin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > -- - Joel
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