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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metacity | 5 |
| metacity canonical | 1 |
| metacity-window-decorator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2629087 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: metacity Context triple: [X11, typicalWindowManagers, metacity]
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A.
Xfwm4
Xfwm4 is the lightweight, compositing window manager used by the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
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B.
Marco window manager
Marco window manager is the lightweight, traditional window manager used by the MATE desktop environment to provide classic window handling and compositing on Unix-like systems.
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C.
IceWM
IceWM is a lightweight, fast, and highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, popular on resource-constrained Linux and Unix-like systems.
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D.
Fluxbox
Fluxbox is a lightweight, highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, known for its speed and minimal resource usage.
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E.
GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell is the core graphical user interface and desktop environment component of the GNOME project, providing the primary user experience on many Linux-based systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: metacity Target entity description: 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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A.
Xfwm4
Xfwm4 is the lightweight, compositing window manager used by the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
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B.
Marco window manager
Marco window manager is the lightweight, traditional window manager used by the MATE desktop environment to provide classic window handling and compositing on Unix-like systems.
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C.
IceWM
IceWM is a lightweight, fast, and highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, popular on resource-constrained Linux and Unix-like systems.
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D.
Fluxbox
Fluxbox is a lightweight, highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, known for its speed and minimal resource usage.
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E.
GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell is the core graphical user interface and desktop environment component of the GNOME project, providing the primary user experience on many Linux-based systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
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
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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.
subject surface form:
Marco
this entity surface form:
Metacity
subject surface form:
Metacity
this entity surface form:
metacity-window-decorator