| Port details |
- metacity Window manager for GNOME Flashback
- 3.58.1 x11-wm
=112 3.58.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: gnome@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: 2002-05-22 09:38:11
- Last Update: 2026-01-26 22:09:41
- Commit Hash: 9e5daf2
- People watching this port, also watch:: gtk2, freetype2, libiconv, popt, libglade2
- License: GPLv2
- WWW:
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity
- Description:
- Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely
with GNOME Flashback.
It uses GTK+ 3 for drawing window frames, so that it inherits colors,
fonts, and so on from the GTK+ theme.
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- Manual pages:
-
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- metacity>0:x11-wm/metacity
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install x11-wm/metacity
- pkg install metacity
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: metacity
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1759077440
SHA256 (gnome/metacity-3.58.1.tar.xz) = e430c8a92409ef2f91a4dabd50a71e3d3bbcc474a3dec1caec3813b381d7d1b0
SIZE (gnome/metacity-3.58.1.tar.xz) = 1752628
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- gsettings-desktop-schemas>0 : devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas
- vulkan-headers>0 : graphics/vulkan-headers
- gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- xml2-config : textproc/libxml2-core
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- sm.pc : x11/libSM
- ice.pc : x11/libICE
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
- xpresent.pc : x11/libXpresent
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xres.pc : x11/libXres
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- gsettings-desktop-schemas>0 : devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas
- sm.pc : x11/libSM
- ice.pc : x11/libICE
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
- xpresent.pc : x11/libXpresent
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xres.pc : x11/libXres
- Library dependencies:
-
- libcanberra.so : audio/libcanberra
- libcanberra-gtk3.so : audio/libcanberra-gtk3
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libgtop-2.0.so : devel/libgtop
- libstartup-notification-1.so : x11/startup-notification
- libvulkan.so : graphics/vulkan-loader
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
- libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
- libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
- This port is required by:
- for Build
-
Deleted ports which required this port:
- for Libraries
-
- x11-themes/clearlooks-metacity
- x11-themes/gnome-themes
-
Deleted ports which required this port:
- for Run
-
- x11/cinnamon
- x11/deforaos-integration
- x11/gnome-flashback
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for metacity-3.58.1:
VULKAN=on: Add support for Vulkan (compositor)
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- x11-wm_metacity
- USES:
- compiler:c11 gettext gmake gnome libtool localbase pathfix pkgconfig tar:xz xorg
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
2.4.34 20 Apr 2003 19:54:55
 |
marcus  |
Remove USE_GNOMENG. |
2.4.34 07 Mar 2003 06:14:21
 |
ade  |
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.
E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti. |
2.4.34 09 Feb 2003 19:18:15
 |
marcus  |
Remove the WWW link. There really is no website of metacity anymore.
Submitted by: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> |
2.4.34 07 Feb 2003 18:42:25
 |
marcus  |
Update to GNOME 2.2.
This is Phase I. All existing ports have been updated to their GNOME 2.2
counterparts. |
2.4.21 25 Jan 2003 04:42:11
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.21. |
2.4.13 19 Jan 2003 19:41:36
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.13. |
2.4.3 13 Jan 2003 04:22:35
 |
marcus  |
Remove share/gnome/themes.
Reported by: bento |
2.4.3 30 Oct 2002 00:45:54
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.3. |
2.4.2 08 Oct 2002 09:52:03
 |
sobomax  |
Use bzip'ed distfile like other gnome ports do. |
2.4.2 05 Oct 2002 17:29:13
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.2. |
2.4.1 17 Sep 2002 04:00:49
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.1. |
2.4.0 24 Aug 2002 03:58:22
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.4.0.
Reported by: Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> |
2.3.987 18 Jul 2002 16:05:23
 |
sobomax  |
Use USE_REINPLACE. |
2.3.987 12 Jun 2002 06:26:23
 |
marcus  |
Update to 2.3.987. |
2.3.610 04 Jun 2002 11:33:19
 |
sobomax  |
Update to 2.3.610. |
2.3.377_1 22 May 2002 17:13:12
 |
marcus  |
Fix Xinerama support. Bump PORTREVISION. |
2.3.377 22 May 2002 09:37:57
 |
sobomax  |
Add metacity 2.3.377, a window manager for the adult in you. Metacity is going
to replace Sawfish in GNOME2 desktop.
PR: 38397
Submitted by: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> |