Free metacity software for linux

Alphacube Metacity Theme consists of a 6 themes pack inspired by milk theme and vista.
The pack contains 6 metacity theme:
1. Simple, whit simple effect on mouse over.
2. Light, whit white light effect on mouse over.
3. Color, whit color light effect on mouse over.
And this version in condensed mode! By Eric, thanks!
To use, you need to unpack the gzip file and then import the metacity theme (first delete the old theme)
--> thanks to ALL, for the high score of this theme!
Enhancements:
- Fix Condensed version

LxG-Egalite 2.6 provides you with an excellent and perfect GTK theme which consists of a GNOME motive GTK2 and Metacity LxG-Egalite version Glass and Carbonite. It will be your good choice!

Enhancements:

• Rounded special wallpaper
• Change tabs
• Edit gtkrc
• Screenshot update, repar small bugs

Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesnt depend on the window manager or on a desktop-drawing program (for example, I use it with Nautilus). It is meant to work with window managers that are EWHM compliant.
However, I only know for sure that it works with Metacity and Xfwm4. And I know that it doesnt work with Fluxbox and that it only partially works with Kwin (hopefully this will be corrected soon). I havent yet tested it with other window managers.
Drawing icons for minimized windows on the desktop might be considered a step backwards by many people (hence the name), but I find it useful to identify minimized windows by position rather than by name.
Main features:
- Simple to use. You dont have to configure anything - just run backstep.
- Session management support - at least to the extent that backstep adds itself to the session so that it will be started automatically the next time you log in to your desktop environment.
- Grouping. Windows can be grouped together (by right clicking on their icons and selecting a group) so that when one window from the group is shown or hidden, all windows in the group are shown or hidden.
- Configurable. You can make some adjustments to the way the icons look. This is done through a simple configuration dialog launched by right-clicking on an icon.
Backstep requires at least version 2.0 of the GTK+ toolkit. It uses the GNU build system and installs in the normal manner:
./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install
Now just run backstep
Enhancements:
- This release makes all the icon frames the same size.
- It also fixes a bug where window managers (like Metacity) that show an animation when a window is hidden would display the animation in the wrong place the first time the icon was shown.

Neutronium provides a darker Mac-lookalike theme.
Neutronium is a darker Mac-lookalike theme. It contains themes for Metacity, Cgwd/Emerald and GTK2.
The GTK2 theme is split in two versions.
Neutronium-High has higher contrast, white text. Neutronium-Low has lower contrast, light grey text.
The Cgwd theme is split in four versions. Two of them have 7px borders and the other two 2px borders. There is also the choice between sharp or rounded corners. If you use Emerald/Beryl, rename the files to .emerald and import.
The same applies to Metacity themes. Download the tarball, extract it and import the parts in Gnome Theme Manager.
Firefox web form color fix and icon fix for Open Office are provided in /Neutronium-Theme-Pack/Neutronium-GTK2/instructions.txt
Enhancements:
- Thanks to quimchin, colors in Firefox can now be fixed. There is no longer need for a separate Firefox theme.
- Fixed the Nautilus separator issue and added instructions for fixing Open Office 2. (big thanks to zammi)
- There were some problems with the server this theme was hosted on. Gnome-look only offers to host one file per theme page, and I didnt want to split the parts on diffrent pages. Now all parts (Metacity, Cgwd and GTK2) are in one tarball.
- Some minor pixmap changes in the GTK2 themes. 2px borders added to Cgwd and Metacity themes.

T-ish Pack provides a fast Clearlooks and Ubuntulooks themes for Gnome made to loosely resemble OSX Tiger.

They fit well with Compiz also.

Contents:
T-ish - Clearlooks theme
T-ish Aguastyle - Clearlooks theme with some pixmap elements
T-ish-Ubuntulooks - Ubuntlooks theme
T-ish-Ubuntulooks Aguastyle - Ubuntulooks theme with some pixmap elements
T-ish-Ubuntulooks Graphite - same as above but thanks to Alejandro Cornejo

Based on Clearlooks or Ubuntulooks engines, Ish GTK theme with additional buttons from Expose and GlossyP metacity borders (with many thanks to authors).

For best results use OSX icons, jaguarx mouse theme, and FoxiTiger firefox skin (links below).

IMPORTANT: In order to install all of the themes youll have to manually extract to ~/.themes dir.

IMPORTANT 2: In order for scrollbars to work on Ubuntu Edgy you have to install gtk2-engines-pixbuf package.

Superswitcher project is a more feature-ful replacement of the Alt-Tab window switching behavior.

SuperSwitcher is a (more feature-ful) replacement for the Alt-Tab window
switching behavior and Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down workspace switching behavior that is currently provided by Metacity.

When running, use the "Super" key (also known as the "Windows" key) to switch between windows and workspaces. This key is usually found between the Ctrl and Alt keys on the keyboard.

Super-Tab works just like Alt-Tab does (with and without Shift), but also:

Super-Up and Super-Down cycles through all windows in the current workspace in a fixed order (as opposed to Alt-Tab or Super-Tab, whose list of windows is ordered by most-recently-used first - which is good if you want recently used windows, but its clumsy to cycle through, for example, all three or four windows in the one workspace). Hold down Shift to re-order the list instead of switching between windows.

Super-PageUp and Super-PageDown maximize and minimize the active window (or restores them if it was already maximized or minimized). Super-Ctrl-PageUp and Super-Ctrl-PageDown do this to all windows on the current workspace, not just the active one.

Super-Left and Super-Right cycles through your workspaces. Hold down Shift
to also bring across the active window into the new workspace. Hold down Shift and Ctrl to bring across all windows from one workspace to the next. Unlike Metacitys Ctrl-Alt-Left and Ctrl-Alt-Right, this "loops" so that, when you get to the end of the list, you cycle back to the start.

Super-F1 moves to workspace number 1, Super-F2 moves to workspace number 2, and so on, up to Super-F12. Again, hold down Shift to bring across the active window, and both Shift and Ctrl to bring across a flock of windows, just like as described above.

Super-Insert creates a new, empty workspace. Again, hold down Shift to also
bring across the active window (if there is one) into the new workspace.

Super-Delete deletes the current workspace, if it is empty. Super-Shift-Delete will delete all empty workspaces, down to a minimum of one.

Super-Escape closes the active window. Super-Ctrl-Escape will close all windows on this workspace.

Whilst holding down Super, typing regular letters or numbers will show you only those windows whose titles match that pattern. Pressing Enter (whilst still holding down Super) will then cycle through the matches, regardless of which workspace you are on. For example, if you have a lot of windows open, and you want to get to your web browser window that is showing planet.gnome.org, then hold down Super, then type "p" "l" "a" "Enter" and then release the Super key.

Shift-Enter goes in the other direction than Enter (i.e., up and left with
Shift, versus down and right without Shift). Use the Space key to enter
multiple word fragments, such as "pla gn", to further refine your search.

Finally, when holding down Super, click on image or text representing a window or a workspace to activate it.

Building, Installing, Running:

To build (and install), the standard

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
(and optionally) sudo make install

should work. After that, just run src/superswitcher. This will listen
indefinitely for Super key presses, until you kill the process (e.g., with
Ctrl-C).

SuperSwitcher is best enjoyed if you automatically start the program
whenever you log in. To do this, from System -> Preferences -> Sessions, go to the Startup Programs tab and add superswitcher.

Candido Desktop its a Metacity and its themes are available in the Engine Section.
Other themes are available in the Themes Section.
Main features:
- Fast cairo-based Engine.
- Gtk2 Pixmap themes.
- Metacity themes.
- Official wallpapers.
- Official GDM theme.
- Xfwm4 themes.
- KDE color schemes for your QT apps.
Candido Engine is the Gtk2 cairo-based engine for new Candido themes.
This engine was expecially designed to be fast light and clean, and to be wonderful as Candido pixmaps themes, and different.
Yes Candido Engine is different, its more contrasted and more flat, thats my new Candido proposal!
Installation Instructions:
After the extraction of the file, go in the source dir and compile as following:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation
make
make install
Enhancements:
- Two useless piece of code removed, Fixed rendering of the progressbar beginning/ending, stolen various bugfixes from gtk-engines-cvs