diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 435a331ce..285dbecc6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-14  Akira TAGOH  <akira@tagoh.org>
+
+        * doc/man/metacity-message.1: new manual page.
+        * doc/man/Makefile.am: added new reference.
+
 2008-08-13  Thomas Thurman  <tthurman@gnome.org>
 
         * configure.in: Post-branch bump to 2.25.0.
diff --git a/doc/man/Makefile.am b/doc/man/Makefile.am
index e4e7d6463..1277f5b7b 100644
--- a/doc/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/man/Makefile.am
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-man_MANS = metacity.1 metacity-theme-viewer.1 metacity-window-demo.1
+man_MANS = metacity.1 metacity-theme-viewer.1 \
+	   metacity-window-demo.1 metacity-message.1
 
 EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS)
diff --git a/doc/man/metacity-message.1 b/doc/man/metacity-message.1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ee62cd75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/man/metacity-message.1
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+.\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
+.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
+.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.\" -----
+.\" This file was confirmed to be licenced under the GPL
+.\" by its author and copyright holder, Akira TAGOH, on June 1st 2008:
+.\"
+.\" > I'm comfortable with DFSG-free. that sounds great if you think it's
+.\" > useful and worth containing it in upstream.
+.\" ...
+.\" > Right I know. any licenses that is DFSG-free, I'm ok with whatever,
+.\" > since I have contributed that for Debian. so GPL is no problem for me.
+.\" -----
+.TH METACITY\-MESSAGE 1 "28 August 2002"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.\"
+.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
+.\" .nh        disable hyphenation
+.\" .hy        enable hyphenation
+.\" .ad l      left justify
+.\" .ad b      justify to both left and right margins
+.\" .nf        disable filling
+.\" .fi        enable filling
+.\" .br        insert line break
+.\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
+.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
+.SH NAME
+METACITY\-MESSAGE \- a command to send a message to Metacity
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B METACITY\-MESSAGE
+[restart|reload\-theme|enable\-keybindings|disable\-keybindings]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B metacity\-message\fP.
+This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
+because the original program does not have a manual page.
+.PP
+.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
+.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, 
+.\" respectively.
+\fBmetacity\-message\fP send a specified message to \fBmetacity\fP(1).
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B restart
+Restart \fBmetacity\fP(1) which is running.
+.TP
+.B reload-theme
+Reload a theme which is specified on gconf database.
+.TP
+.B enable-keybindings
+Enable all of keybindings which is specified on gconf database.
+.TP
+.B disable-keybindings
+Disable all of keybindings which is specified on gconf database.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR metacity (1)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org>,
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).