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@@ -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.