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Metacity (pronounced /məˈtæsɪti/) 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.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metacity | Developer | The GNOME Project | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | License | GPL-2.0-or-later | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Operating system | Linux | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Platform | GNOME | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Release | 2.4.2 5 October 2002; 23 years ago (2002-10) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Repository | gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity.git | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Stable release | 3.56.0 / 26 April 2025; 15 months ago (26 April 2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Type | X window manager | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Website | gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | Written in | C | 1.00 | infobox |
| Metacity | related to Aim | Metacity's | 0.60 | section |
| Metacity | related to Aim | Its | 0.60 | section |
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