---
name: "metacity-theme-viewer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "metacity"
version: "3.58.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/metacity-theme-viewer"
---

# metacity-theme-viewer(1)

view metacity themes

## NAME

metacity-theme-viewer - view metacity themes

## SYNOPSIS

**metacity-theme-viewer** \[ *THEMENAME* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**metacity-theme-viewer** allows you to preview any installed Metacity theme.

When designing a new Metacity theme, you can use **metacity-theme-viewer** to measure the performance of a window frame option, and to preview the option.

## OPTIONS

- *THEMENAME*

  Name of the theme to be shown (*Atlanta* by default). It is case-sensitive.

## FILES

```

```

- */usr/share/themes*

  system themes directory

- */usr/share/themes/\*/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml*

  theme specification file

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jose M. Moya \<josem@die.upm.es\>, for the Debian  GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

[**metacity**(1)](/metacity/1.md).