Mutter-3.38.3

Introduction to Mutter

Mutter is the window manager for GNOME. It is not invoked directly, but from GNOME Session (on a machine with a hardware accelerated video driver).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

Mutter Dependencies

Required

gnome-desktop-3.38.4, gnome-settings-daemon-3.38.1, graphene-1.10.4, libcanberra-0.30, libwacom-1.8, libxkbcommon-1.0.3, pipewire-0.3.22, UPower-0.99.11, and Zenity-3.32.0

Recommended

Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutter

Installation of Mutter

Install Mutter by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: dbus-run-session ninja test. The tests require an active X session to run correctly. It is not necessary to run a separate D-bus session if not in a GNOME session, but it provides a clean environment in any case.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter-7.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-7

Short Descriptions

mutter

is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager

libmutter-7.so

contains the Mutter API functions

Last updated on 2021-02-25 10:01:25 -0800