1 Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in
2 the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also
3 it may have something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards.
5 - Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like
6 Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.
7 - Uses GTK+ 2.0 for drawing window frames. This means colors, fonts, etc.
9 - Has a simple theme system and a couple of extra themes come with it.
10 Change themes via gconf-editor or gconftool:
11 gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/theme Crux
12 - Change number of workspaces via gconf-editor or gconftool:
13 gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 5
14 Can also change workspaces from GNOME 2 pager.
16 gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode mouse