Metisse is an experimental X desktop with some OpenGL capacity. It is constituted by a virtual X server called Xwnc, a special version of FVWM and an FVWM module FvwmAmetista (after Ametista).
Xwnc is a mix of Xvnc and XDarwin. It draws nothing on your screen, every things is drawn into pixmaps. Similarly as Xvnc, but with a different protocol, Xwnc can send these pixmaps (and others information) to a "viewer". FvwmAmetista is such a viewer, it uses OpenGL (via nucleo) for rendering the X desktop into a window of a "regular" 3D accelerated X server.
Before I begin, I would like to thank Olivier Chapuis who helped me to trouble-shoot some of the issues I was having and pointing me to the additional helpful documents.
In this article, I'll be using metisse version 0.3.3 on Fedora Core 2 as an example and you will find pre-compiled RPM packages for FC1 and FC2 at the bottom this article.
As requirements, you will need to install nucleo and wm-icons RPM packages first.
[tchung@localhost requirements]$ ls nucleo-0.1-1.fc2.i386.rpm wm-icons-0.3.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm [tchung@localhost requirements]$ sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:wm-icons ########################################### [ 50%] 2:nucleo ########################################### [100%] [tchung@localhost requirements]$To build the RPM package, you'll need:
BTW, metisse.desktop is display manager desktop to allows you logs into METISSE session for FC2. It's not a gnome menu desktop.
Let's begin:
(Make sure you have created rpmbuild directory in your own home.)
[tchung@localhost metisse]$ ls metisse-0.3.3.tar.bz2 metisse.desktop metisse-session metisse.spec requirements [tchung@localhost metisse]$ cp *.bz2 *.desktop metisse-session ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ [tchung@localhost metisse]$ cp *.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ [tchung@localhost metisse]$ rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/metisse.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94045 + umask 022 + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + unset DISPLAY + rm -rf /var/tmp/metisse-0.3.3-buildroot + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf metisse-0.3.3 + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SOURCES/metisse-0.3.3.tar.bz2 ...omitted... Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SRPMS/metisse-0.3.3-2.FC2.src.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/metisse-0.3.3-2.FC2.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/metisse-debuginfo-0.3.3-2.FC2.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36546 + umask 022 + cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd metisse-0.3.3 + rm -rf /var/tmp/metisse-0.3.3-buildroot + exit 0 [tchung@localhost metisse]$
To install the RPM package,
[tchung@localhost metisse]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/metisse-0.3.3-2.FC2.i386.rpm Password: Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:metisse ########################################### [100%] [tchung@localhost metisse]$
As I described above, this RPM package installs a session called METISSE for FC2 login display manager. Before you logout and login with METISSE session, make sure to edit following file to match with your screen resolution.
[tchung@localhost metisse]$ sudo vi /usr/bin/metisse-session Xwnc -ac -geometry 1600x1200 :1 & metisse-start-fvwm -- -t
Here is the screenshot of Login Display Manager with Metisse Session selected.
Here is the screenshot of Two Mozilla Windows Crossed in 3D Metisse Session.
Here are more screenshots from the project: http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/screenshots/.
Here are the pre-compiled RPMs for metisse version 0.3.3 for FC1 and FC2.
Here are some useful Key Bindings:
Ctl-Shift F1 : reset all the 3D transformation Ctl-Shift F2/F3 : Z rotations Ctl-Shift F4/F5 : Y rotations Ctl-Shift F6/F7 : X rotations Ctl-Shift F8/F9 : zoom in/out the full desktop Ctl-Shift o : XY roationFor more information on running Metisse, please read http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/running.html
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