Cannot change settings for Metacity

[Joel Feiner]

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 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ or find a GNOME mailing list/form and ask the
question there.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Huaxin Xu <hxu at the3rdeye.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> 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.
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> I could not change settings (such as num_workspaces,
> action_right_click_titlebar) for matacity.
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> `gconftool-2 --type=int --set /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces
> 1` reported no errors or warnings, in fact, nothing.
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> `gconftool-2 --get /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces` would
> return the value I had set (in this case, 1).
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> 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.
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> Similarly for action_right_click_titlebar
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> `gconftool-2 --type =string --set
> /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar none` reported
> nothing.
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> `gconftool-2 --get
> /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar` would return the
> value I had set (“none”)
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> 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.
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> 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”.
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> However, as gnome (or any other desktop environment) was not running, I am not sure if gconftool-2 can enforce the settings on metacity.
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> Another issue, which may be related is
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> Changing the theme of metacity by
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> `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).
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> or changing a particular value of a theme by editing the XML file (/usr/share/themes/Nodoka/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml)
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> would not make any difference whatsoever in appearance (e.g. titlebar’s width, height, padding height, etc)
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> 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?
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> Thanks very much!
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> Huaxin
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- Joel
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