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  2. Metacity - Wikipedia

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    Metacity / m ə ˈ t æ s ɪ t i / [1] was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment [2] [3] until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3. [4] It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.

  3. GNOME 2 - Wikipedia

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    GNOME 2's initial release was largely an evolution of the final release of GNOME 1, that had introduced both Nautilus (today known as GNOME Files) as its file manager, and Sawfish as its window manager. However, in an effort to simplify its implementation, by the second release of GNOME 2, the Metacity window manager

  4. Comparison of X window managers - Wikipedia

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    1.2.3 [24] 2023-03-15 GPL-2.0-or-later: Metacity (GNOME 2) Compositing: C, C++ (GTK+) 2002-10 3.54.0 [25] 2024-10-05 GPL-2.0-or-later: Moksha (E17) Compositing: C: 2015-08-11 0.4.1 [26] 2023-07-23 Motif Window Manager (mwm) Stacking: C: 1989 2.3.8 [27] 2017-12-05 LGPL-2.1-or-later: Mutter (GNOME 3+/MeeGo) Compositing: C (Clutter) 2011-04 47.3 ...

  5. Mutter (software) - Wikipedia

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    mutter.gnome.org Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System , but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor . It became the default window manager in GNOME 3 , replacing Metacity [ 4 ] which used GTK for rendering.

  6. X window manager - Wikipedia

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    GNOME's Mutter née Metacity (first dev-branch compositor in 2.7 [citation needed] or 2.8 Wayback Machine of 2004 Linux Today - Release Digest: GNOME, August 30, 2004—original stable-branch compositor since 2.14 in 2005 Re: About Compositing or 2006 Metacity branched for 2.14—current compositor architecture since 2.22 Enable Metacity ...

  7. GNOME - Wikipedia

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    GNOME 2 was released in June 2002 [59] [60] and was very similar to a conventional desktop interface, featuring a simple desktop in which users could interact with virtual objects such as windows, icons, and files. GNOME 2 started out with Sawfish as its default window manager, but later switched to Metacity in GNOME 2.2.

  8. Compositing window manager - Wikipedia

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    Metacity window manager, part of GNOME 2. On March 24, 2001, Mac OS X v10.0 became the first mainstream operating system to feature software-based 3D compositing and effects, provided by its Quartz component. With the release of Mac OS X v10.2 and Quartz Extreme, the job of compositing could move to dedicated graphics hardware. [2] [10]

  9. MATE (desktop environment) - Wikipedia

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    MATE 1.6 removes some deprecated libraries, moving from mate-conf (a fork of GConf) to GSettings, and from mate-corba (a fork of GNOME's Bonobo) to D-Bus. One of the aims of the MATE developers is to provide a traditional user experience while using the newest technologies.