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@@ -1,16 +1,4 @@ -Marco is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather -Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. marco : meta as -opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key -on UNIX keyboards. - -The first release of Marco was version 2.3. Marco has no need for -your petty hangups about version numbers. - -The stable releases so far are 2.4.x, 2.6.x, 2.8.[01], 2.8.1.x, 2.8.5-, -2.10.x, 2.12.x, 2.14.x, 2.16.x. - -Unstable branches are 2.3.x, 2.5.x, 2.8.2-4, 2.9.x, 2.11.x, 2.13.x, -2.15.x, 2.17.x. +MATE Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. COMPILING MARCO === @@ -18,14 +6,15 @@ COMPILING MARCO You need GTK+ 2.2. For startup notification to work you need libstartup-notification at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/ or on the -MATE ftp site. You also need MateConf 1.2 (unless building a funky +MATE ftp site. You also need MateConf (unless building a funky extra-small embedded marco with --disable-mateconf, see below). REPORTING BUGS AND SUBMITTING PATCHES === -Report new bugs on http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Please check for -duplicates, *especially* if you are reporting a feature request. +Report new bugs on https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-window-manger. +Please check for duplicates, *especially* if you are reporting a feature +request. Please do *not* add "me too!" or "yes I really want this!" comments to feature requests in bugzilla. Please read @@ -234,7 +223,7 @@ EWMH-compliant WMs). MARCO BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS === -See bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi +See github: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-window-manager/issues FAQ === @@ -270,22 +259,6 @@ A: If it makes sense to turn on unconditionally, or is genuinely a http://pobox.com/~hp/free-software-ui.html http://pobox.com/~hp/features.html -Q: Will Marco be part of MATE? - -A: It is officially part of MATE as of MATE 2.2. Prior to that, - it was unofficially shipped as the default MATE WM by several - OS vendors. - -Q: Is Marco a Red Hat project? - -A: Marco's original creation was in no way funded, endorsed, or - encouraged by Red Hat, Inc. - I'm guessing Red Hat would not - consider "insufficient number of window managers for Linux" an - urgent problem. Just a wild guess though. - - Now that marco is the default WM however, Red Hat supports some - bugfixing and other work. - Q: Why does Marco remember the workspace/position of some apps but not others across logout/login? @@ -311,7 +284,7 @@ A: Marco only stores sizes/positions for apps that are session So the correct way to fix the situation is to make apps session-aware. libSM has come with X for years, it's very - standardized, it's shared by MATE and KDE - even twm is + standardized, it's shared by GNOME and KDE - even twm is session-aware. So anyone who won't take a patch to add SM is more archaic than twm - and you should flame them. ;-) |