MARCO(1) General Commands Manual MARCO(1)
NAME
Marco - The MATE Window Manager
SYNOPSIS
marco [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Marco is a minimal X window manager that uses GTK+ for drawing window
frames. It is aimed at non-technical users and is designed to integrate
well with the MATE desktop. Marco is a plain window manager for the
adult in you; Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops,
Marco is like Cheerios. It lacks some features that may be expected by
traditional UNIX or other technical users; these users may want to in-
vestigate other available window managers for use with MATE or as a
standalone window manager.
Marco supports several somewhat advanced but common features such as
Window Shading/Roll-Up, Window/Edge Snapping, Vertical and Horizontal
Maximize, Always-On-Top, Sloppy/Mouse Focus and Raising, and many
more... Well, not a lot, but some more.
This manual page documents the marco command.
OPTIONS
-d, --display=DISPLAY
X display to use.
--sync
Make X calls synchronous.
--replace
Replace the currently running window manager with Marco.
--sm-disable
Disable the connection to the session manager.
--sm-client-id=ID
Specify a session management ID.
--sm-save-file=FILENAME
Restore from a session management savefile.
If no path is specified marco will look in ~/.config/mate-ses-
sion/saved-session/
-c, --composite
Turn compositing ON. You may also use this option to start marco
with composite "true transparency" effects.
--no-composite
Turn compositing OFF. You may also use this option to start
marco without compositing effects.
--no-force-fullscreen
Do not create fullscreen windows without decorations.
--no-keybindings
Have all keybindings disabled on startup.
--version
Print current version information and exit.
-?, -h, --help
Print standard command line options.
CONFIGURATION
Marco configuration can be found via the main MATE menus, under "Sys-
tem->Preferences->Windows" and "System->Preferences->Keyboard Short-
cuts" or by running the commands mate-window-properties and mate-key-
binding-properties respectively. Advanced configuration can also be
achieved directly, via dconf-editor under "/org/mate/marco/".
BUGS
Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:
http://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues
AUTHORS
This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment
by:
Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)
HISTORY
Portions of this manual page were originally written by Luke Morton and
Philip O'Brien (2006) for Metacity, but do not bear resemblance to pre-
ceding documentation.
SEE ALSO
Further information may also be available at: http://wiki.mate-desk-
top.org/docs
marco-message(1), marco-theme-viewer(1), marco-window-demo(1)
MATE Desktop Environment 7 February 2014 MARCO(1)
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