What Role Does Metacity Play in Mint?

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TechGuyAndrew

What Role Does Metacity Play in Mint?

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I have finished reading numerous resources on Linux and am now feeling like an expert on the topic (I know I'm not though) and I had a question about window managers. I do not really understand what the role of Metacity is in Mint. I don't really understand why it's necassary. I do understand how X11, mdm, and then your DE all work together, but not where metacity comes into play.
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eanfrid

Re: What Role Does Metacity Play in Mint?

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A window manager manages windows :) display, size, decoration, movement, pointer interactivity and so on.

Metacity is the legacy GTK Gnome window manager. In Gnome 3, it is replaced with "Mutter"; in Cinnamon with "Muffin" and in MATE (Gnome 2 revival) with "Marco"... notice they all are named "M__" ;)
TechGuyAndrew

Re: What Role Does Metacity Play in Mint?

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Okay. I think I understand now. Thanks.
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