x11-wm/metacity 3.58.1 MidnightBSD

Window manager for GNOME Flashback

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-09
Commit: 5cbc2a245f
License: gpl2
Categories: x11-wm

Description

Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME Flashback. It uses GTK+ 3 for drawing window frames, so that it inherits colors, fonts, and so on from the GTK+ theme.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 3.58.1, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/metacity

3.58.1 newest

no data

[email protected]

2026-09-09

FreeBSD

x11-wm/metacity

3.58.1 newest

none known

[email protected]

DragonFly

x11-wm/metacity

3.44.0_3 behind since 2026-09-09

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/metacity

3.58.1 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/metacity

3.58.1 newest

no data

[email protected]

Version history 1

3.58.1 2026-09-09 5cbc2a245f

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

mport install metacity

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/x11-wm/metacity && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	metacity>0:x11-wm/metacity
LIB_DEPENDS=	libmetacity.so:x11-wm/metacity

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["x11-wm/metacity"]
  u0["x11-themes/clearlooks-metacity"] --> me
  u1["x11-themes/gnome-themes"] --> me
  u2["x11/cinnamon"] --> me
  me --> d0["audio/libcanberra"]
  me --> d1["audio/libcanberra-gtk3"]
  me --> d2["devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas"]
  me --> d3["devel/libgtop"]
  me --> d4["print/harfbuzz"]
  me --> d5["x11/startup-notification"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 1

gsettings-desktop-schemas>0 : devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas

Library 5

libcanberra.so : audio/libcanberra
libcanberra-gtk3.so : audio/libcanberra-gtk3
libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
libgtop-2.0.so : devel/libgtop
libstartup-notification-1.so : x11/startup-notification

Runtime 1

gsettings-desktop-schemas>0 : devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas

Build dependencies 6

Run dependencies 6

Required by 3

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_metacity

Option

Default

Description

VULKAN

Add support for Vulkan (compositor)

USES: compiler:c11 gettext gmake gnome libtool localbase pathfix pkgconfig tar:xz xorg
Service scripts: none

Files

Manual pages 3

metacity(1)
metacity-message(1)
metacity-theme-viewer(1)

pkg-plist 114

bin/metacity
bin/metacity-message
bin/metacity-theme-viewer
include/metacity/libmetacity/meta-button.h
include/metacity/libmetacity/meta-color.h
include/metacity/libmetacity/meta-frame-borders.h
include/metacity/libmetacity/meta-frame-enums.h
include/metacity/libmetacity/meta-theme.h
lib/libmetacity.so
lib/libmetacity.so.3
lib/libmetacity.so.3.0.0
libdata/pkgconfig/libmetacity.pc
libexec/metacity-dialog
share/applications/metacity.desktop
share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-metacity-navigation.xml
share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-metacity-system.xml
share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-metacity-windows.xml
share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/metacity.mo
share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/metacity.mo
share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/metacity.mo
share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/metacity.mo
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distinfo 1

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SHA256

gnome/metacity-3.58.1.tar.xz

1.752628e+06

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Master sites 1

GNOME

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-09 5cbc2a245f Lucas Holt x11-wm/metacity: update to 3.58.1 (#934)