metacity

E284589

Metacity is a lightweight, compositing window manager best known for serving as the default window manager for the GNOME 2 desktop environment on X11.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Metacity 5
metacity canonical 1
metacity-window-decorator 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf X11 window manager
compositing window manager
free and open-source software
window manager
category GNOME Software
surface form: GNOME software

X Window System window managers
free window managers
configurationMethod dconf
surface form: GConf

gsettings (in later GNOME versions)
designGoal integration with GNOME
minimal configuration
simplicity
developer GNOME community
surface form: GNOME Project

Havoc Pennington
distribution source code tarballs via GNOME mirrors
genre stacking window manager with optional compositing
hasComponent metacity self-linksurface differs
surface form: metacity-window-decorator
hasFeature compositing
focus management
keyboard shortcuts
theme support
virtual desktops
implements GNOME window manager hints
influenced Mutter
license GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
surface form: GPL-2.0-or-later
maintainer GNOME maintainers
operatingSystem BSD
Linux
Unix-like systems
packageManager Arch Linux
Debian
Fedora Linux
surface form: Fedora

Ubuntu
partOf GNOME desktop environment
programmingLanguage C
replacedBy Mutter
supports GNOME panel integration
session management via GNOME
supportsDisplayServer X11
supportsProtocol EWMH
ICCCM
supportsThemingFormat Metacity theme format
usedAs default window manager for GNOME 2
default window manager for early GNOME 3 releases
website https://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: metacity
Description of subject: Metacity is a lightweight, compositing window manager best known for serving as the default window manager for the GNOME 2 desktop environment on X11.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

X11 typicalWindowManagers metacity
Mutter replaces metacity
this entity surface form: Metacity
Mutter basedOn metacity
this entity surface form: Metacity
Marco window manager basedOn metacity
subject surface form: Marco
this entity surface form: Metacity
metacity hasComponent metacity self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Metacity
this entity surface form: metacity-window-decorator
mutter replaces metacity
subject surface form: Mutter
this entity surface form: Metacity
mutter basedOn metacity
subject surface form: Mutter
this entity surface form: Metacity