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 <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/</a> or find a GNOME mailing list/form and ask the question there.<div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Huaxin Xu <<a href="mailto:hxu@the3rdeye.com.au">hxu@the3rdeye.com.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> 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. <pre>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”.</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>However, as gnome (or any other desktop environment) was not running, I am not sure if gconftool-2 can enforce the settings on metacity.</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>Another issue, which may be related is</pre> <pre>Changing the theme of metacity by </pre><pre>`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).</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>or changing a particular value of a theme by editing the XML file (/usr/share/themes/Nodoka/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml)</pre> <pre>would not make any difference whatsoever in appearance (e.g. titlebar’s width, height, padding height, etc)</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>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?</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>Thanks very much!</pre> <pre> </pre><pre>Huaxin</pre> </div> </div> _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:jafeiner@gmail.com">jafeiner@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></div> -- - Joel </div>