Metacity gone

Someone was asking how they could help with Metacity. Here are some thoughts.

Hello!

Due to personal preference, on my old machine, which uses XFCE as desktop, I have changed the default window manager to metacity.

Now I want to do the same on my new machine, but unfortunately I have both forgotten what I had done exactly and cannot find a satisfying solution on the web either.

The last two lines of my .xinitrc looks like this

xterm -g 80x24+10+10 -bg black -fg green & metacity

When I used twm, I could exit it from the menu (return to the tty where I run xinit), but how do you exit metacity? The man metacity does not mention this, but it refers to the panel menu (which I don't have). Maybe it's there?

I'm reading a number of sites on making ubuntu faster/more lightweight (e.g. this guide, and many mention replacing Metacity with Openbox. However, in 12.04 on an Inspiron e1405, I only see Metacity taking 11MiB and (fairly consistently) 0% CPU. Am I missing something? Seems like I would be optimizing zero to replace something that uses that few resources

Hi how can i use metacity with composite manager without gnome-shell.

Metacity allows you to keep your windows on workspaces.  You can have between one and 36 of them.  (The number 36 is rather arbitrary; it’s

Thanks for taking the time to ready my question.

metacity layer to run docky, awn ..etc for shitty pc

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