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authorHavoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>2002-07-10 12:26:00 +0000
committerHavoc Pennington <hp@src.gnome.org>2002-07-10 12:26:00 +0000
commiteb42281fd43258bc352323ac2582549dcfd010dd (patch)
treebeadffbf8a41af46510d7f303a273bb03b1064cd
parent93902aabfdfdb553010d20b5af92b2205eb80aa8 (diff)
downloadmetacity-eb42281fd43258bc352323ac2582549dcfd010dd.tar.gz
couple of updates
2002-07-10 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com> * README: couple of updates * src/main.c (usage): add --replace to usage, reported by Matthias Clasen
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--README16
-rw-r--r--src/main.c2
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 11551953..a46e5cd7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-07-10 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>
+
+ * README: couple of updates
+
+ * src/main.c (usage): add --replace to usage, reported by Matthias
+ Clasen
+
2002-07-09 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>
* src/metacity.schemas.in: fix short description for
diff --git a/README b/README
index cb3c28fd..25a96978 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ METACITY FEATURES
- considers the panel when placing windows and maximizing
them.
+ - handles the window manager selection from the ICCCM. Will exit if
+ another WM claims it, and can claim it from another WM if you pass
+ the --replace argument. So if you're running another
+ ICCCM-compliant WM, you can run "metacity --replace" to replace it
+ with Metacity.
+
+ - does basic colormap handling
+
METACITY BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS
===
@@ -143,12 +151,8 @@ METACITY BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS
to navigate graphically; this does NOT include GNOME 1.x,
but should include GNOME 2 and KDE 3.
- - I haven't even read the ICCCM section about colormaps. So if you
- have an 8-bit display you are probably screwed.
-
- - Metacity doesn't properly claim the window manager selection
- as described in the ICCCM. But then, most other window managers
- don't handle this correctly either.
+ - doesn't do WM_COLORMAPS from the ICCCM, may matter on some really
+ old obscure hardware with some really obscure apps.
- There are probably other ICCCM-compliance issues.
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 190c34ed..89d9ca4b 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ log_handler (const gchar *log_domain,
static void
usage (void)
{
- g_print ("metacity [--disable-sm] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--display=DISPLAY]\n");
+ g_print (_("metacity [--disable-sm] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace]\n"));
exit (1);
}