[MacPorts] #14905: metacity fails to build (core/compositor.c issues)

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#14905: metacity fails to build (core/compositor.c issues)
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  Reporter:  paulbeard at gmail.com  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                            
 Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.6.0                                
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  metacity                             
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Comment (by rhwood at macports.org):

 Replying to [comment:22 paulbeard at gmail.com]:
 > I was under the impression it was possible to use a different WM.

 One can ''use'' a different WM, but one still needs metacity to build in
 my experience. GNOME clings to metacity as a lowest common denominator and
 is designed so that the failure of a different WM to start (for example
 code in the WM to handle complex effects bomb out on bad X drivers) will
 lead to metacity starting to provide a minimally acceptable user interface
 (at least this is my experience in Fedora8/RHEL5 land).

 As far as I can recall, the gnome-control-center builds metacity-specific
 stuff as well.

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