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@@ -9,10 +9,15 @@ your petty hangups about version numbers. COMPILING METACITY === -You need GTK+ 1.3.x (to become 2.0). At the moment CVS HEAD is -required. Once 1.3.7 is available that will probably work. Metacity is -a fairly trivial 6000-line C program, so once you get GTK+ built it -should be no problem to build Metacity. +You need GTK+ 1.3.x (to become 2.0), at least version 1.3.7. At the +moment CVS HEAD works, but that can change. Metacity is a fairly +trivial 6000-line C program, so once you get GTK+ built it should be +no problem to build Metacity. + +There are SRPMs on the ftp site (there were also binaries for a bit, +but I am taking them down because they only worked with Rawhide, so it +was sort of pointless). Just "rpm --rebuild metacity-whatever.src.rpm" +after installing the GTK packages from ftp.gtk.org. REPORTING BUGS AND SUBMITTING PATCHES === @@ -251,9 +256,6 @@ METACITY BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS setting the new non-legacy type hint, but a panel with that patch hasn't been released yet. - - If you run a GLX/DRI 3D game or application, Metacity will - crash, for reasons I do not yet understand. - FAQ === |