Mutter-41.4

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-11.1 platform.

Package Information

Mutter Dependencies

Required

gnome-settings-daemon-41.0, graphene-1.10.6, libxcvt-0.1.1, libxkbcommon-1.4.0, pipewire-0.3.47, and Zenity-3.32.0

Recommended

Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

Recommended (Runtime)

Optional

Xorg-Server-21.1.3 (for X11 sessions)

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

Installation of Mutter

Install Mutter by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dtests=false .. &&
ninja

The test suite for this package does not work on systems using glibc-2.35 and later.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-Dtests=false: Prevents building the tests, and removes a hard requirement on catchsegv or xvfb-run.

-Dprofiler=false: Use this option if Sysprof is not installed, and you don't want meson to download Sysprof source code.

Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter-9.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-9

Short Descriptions

mutter

is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager

libmutter-9.so

contains the Mutter API functions

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