Projects/Metisse
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Metisse
Metisse is a window manager developped by the In Situ project.
More information about Metisse, including screencast videos is available at https://mandriva.com/projects/metisse.
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How to test metisse
- using a liveCD (based on Mandriva Linux 2007.0 with GNOME as desktop). Download is available at https://mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse/download
- on Mandriva Linux 2007.1 : use drak3d to enable metisse as 3D technology.
- on Mandriva Linux 2007.0: Warning, this is not supported by Mandriva, use as your own risk
- From main/backport repository, download packages libnucleo0, compositing-server-common, compositing-wm-common and gnome-session (this one is only needed if you are using GNOME as desktop).
- From contrib/backport, download packages x11-server-xmetisse, metisse and metisse-fvwm packages.
- Using urpmi, install all downloaded packages (and their dependencies).
- When install is done, modify the following files
/etc/sysconfig/compositing-wm
COMPOSITING_WM_START=yes COMPOSITING_WM=metisse-start-fvwm
/etc/sysconfig/compositing-server
COMPOSITING_SERVER_START=yes COMPOSITING_SERVER=Xmetisse
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More information
- FAQ about Metisse is available at https://mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse/faq
- User documentation about Metisse is available at https://mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse/functionalities