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Mutter (software)
GNOME window manager and display server

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity which used GTK for rendering. "Mutter" is a combination of "Metacity" and "Clutter".

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Window management

Mutter can function as a standalone window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell,2 which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plug-ins, and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plug-in to Mutter.

Release history

  • Support for HiDPI was added to version 3.13 of Mutter by Adel Gadllah.3
  • In version 3.13.2 logind integration replaced mutter-launch.4
  • In version 3.13.3 (June 24, 2014) the server side bits of wl_touch_interface were implemented by Carlos Garnacho.5678

Forks

Muffin

Muffin is a fork of Mutter by the Linux Mint team for their Cinnamon desktop environment. Cinnamon's shell, a fork of GNOME Shell, is written as a plugin for Muffin.9

Further reading

References

  1. Vervloesem, Koen (2009-08-04). "Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3". LWN.net. Retrieved 2011-12-27. https://lwn.net/Articles/344734/ ↩

  2. Kissling, Kristian (2009-07-08). "Mutter: Window Manager in GNOME's Future". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-27. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Mutter-Window-Manager-in-GNOME-s-Future ↩

  3. Adel Gadllah (2014-05-03). "wayland: Add basic hidpi support". Retrieved 2014-05-03. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/commit/31c925c60293c3d72da533db0780e796e170 ↩

  4. Florian Müllner (2014-05-27). "mutter 3.13.2". mail.gnome.org. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2014-May/msg00123.html ↩

  5. Carlos Garnacho (2014-06-04). "wayland: Implement the server side bits of wl_touch_interface". https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/commit/2250865eb61f3110914e09cd50010f8e695c1aeb ↩

  6. Florian Müllner (2014-06-24). "mutter 3.13.3". [email protected] (Mailing list). https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2014-June/msg00082.html ↩

  7. "Bug 724442 – Touchscreen does not work". bugzilla.gnome.org. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724442 ↩

  8. Florian Müllner (2014-07-23). "mutter 3.13.4". [email protected] (Mailing list). https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2014-July/msg00088.html ↩

  9. Lefebvre, Clement (23 January 2012). "Cinnamon 1.2 released". cinnamon.linuxmint.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121101211537/http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=119 ↩