http://www.plig.org/xwinman/metacity.html
这里有一段描述. 不知道准确不.
gnome 1.4 的时候用的是 sawfish, 2.0 开始好像就是 metacity 了.
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License: GPL
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Metacity is a lightweight window manager written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat. The first version was 2.3, which was released in 2001. It is implemented with the GTK+ 2.x toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME 2.x platform. In fact the intention is to remove the traditional separation between window manager and desktop, and present to the user a single desktop interface. This means that the limited configuration options available for Metacity are shown as desktop options, not as Metacity options (although there is an optional "Metacity-setup" panel which conflicts with this approach).
Instead of adding numerous features, Metacity attempts to use good defaults. The author even describes it as "boring", and it doesn't even have a logo!
