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MAN Solaris - metacity-message (1)

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metacity-message - send messages to the desktop window manager

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metacity-message [disable-keybindings] [enable-keybindings] [reload-theme] [restart] [toggle-verbose]

You can use the metacity-message application to communicate with the desktop window manager to perform the following tasks: restart the window manager, reload the current window border theme, enable and disable keybindings, and enable debugging messages.

The following options are supported:

disable-keybindings Disable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

enable-keybindings Enable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

reload-theme Reload the current window border theme.

restart Restart the desktop window manager.

toggle-verbose Enable debugging messages for the desktop window manager.

Example 1: Restarting the Window Manager

example% metacity-message restart

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

>0 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/metacity-message Executable to communicate with the desktop window manager

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-wm
Interface stability	Volitile

Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

metacity(1), gnome-window-properties(1), metacity-theme-viewer(1), metacity-window-demo(1)

Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

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