[sugar] Experiments with Metacity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was playing around with the possibility of replacing the current
> Sugar WM - Matchbox with Metacity (this will, as I understand, enable
> stock desktop applications run better within Sugar).
> Certain things do break if we just drop in Metacity in place of
> Matchbox, but it looks like with some changes in the code (Sugar code,
> I would try to avoid changing Metacity code), we might actually get
> something useful.
> Marco had started a page on this topic sometime back -
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WindowManagement, and I have updated this
> page with my findings.

Yay!

> Setting the window to be fullscreen (via set_fullscreen())does not seem to work, since it stops the frame from popping up, and also an icon to exit fullscreen appears at the top right corner. One possible solution to this is to make the activity window undecorated (we do not need maximise/minimize/resize buttons), and making their height/width equal to the dimensions of the screen.

This would need to be done by each activity or the window manager, or
can be done by the shell?

What about a composition manager? Has metacity some capabilities in this regard?

In the faster builds we have a matchbox with some simple composition
management, but it has some issues.

Thanks,

Tomeu