GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 329484
Double-click titlebar to Minimize
Last modified: 2006-02-01 22:20:16 UTC
In Metacity's Window Preferences, there should be a third option for Titlebar Action: Minimize (in addition to Maximize and Roll up). This will allow Metacity to be consistent with expectations of Mac OS X users where double-clicking a titlebar Minimizes the window.
There is an option in recent versions of Metacity to have double-click do minimize, settable via gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar \ --type string minimize Adding something for this in the window preferences for this option would be the control center's job, except that the window preferences menu item should be removed altogether (see bug 154614) and instead placed in an outside package like gTweakUI. So, you'll need to file the request for UI options with gTweakUI or your other favorite outside settings tweaking package. I'll mark as a duplicate of bug 300210 since Metacity has the necessary abilities. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300210 ***
Thanks :) I vaguely remember trying to set that value years (2? 3?) ago, and didn't notice any change in behaviour. Nice to know it's there!
How "recent" a version do you mean? Running metacity-2.13.34 from Fedora Core 5 Test 2, with action_double_click_titlebar = "minimize" (instead of the default "toggle_maximize"), windows still maximize when double-clicked. Could this be a FC-specific issue?
You need the next version, 2.13.55.
Yeah, I just checked the changelog, but apparently Olav was faster. Anyway, I apparently was wrong and instead of saying "recent versions" I should have said "the latest version", because you need metacity >= 2.13.55. (This fix was the first commit after 2.13.34 was released).