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Metacity was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3. It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetacityA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Raisons d'écrireThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Metacity: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Ecology and Urban DesignCited 42 times
- Go sideways: Mutter (software)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: WmctrlA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Metacity: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Ecology and Urban Design
MetaCity: Data-driven sustainable development of complex cities
The Architecture of the Metacity: Land Use Change, Patch Dynamics and Urban Form in Chiang Mai, Thailand
METACity‐Quito: A Semi‐Dense Urban Seismic Network Deployed to Analyze the Concept of Metamaterial for the Future Design of Seismic‐Proof Cities
Collecting and Disseminating Knowledge on the Architecture of the Metacity
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Raisons d'écrirePierre Chabard, Marilena Kourniati · 2013
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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