Mutter-3.32.2

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### Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

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# Mutter-3.32.2

## 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-9.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.32/mutter-3.32.2.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.32/mutter-3.32.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 283c54e0f8a37dc54b99a1de0e0b2a2e

- Download size: 2.7 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 183 MB

- Estimated build time: 2.2 SBU

### Additional Downloads

- Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/9.0/mutter-3.32.2-upstream_fixes-1.patch

### Mutter Dependencies

#### Required

Clutter-1.26.2, gnome-desktop-3.32.2, libcanberra-0.30, libwacom-0.29, libxkbcommon-0.8.4, pipewire-0.2.6, UPower-0.99.10, and Zenity-3.32.0

#### Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.60.2 and startup-notification-0.12

#### Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

libinput-1.14.0, Wayland-1.17.0, wayland-protocols-1.18, and Xorg-Server-1.20.5 (with Xwayland). Additionally, GTK+-3.24.10 needs to be built with Wayland support.

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

## Installation of Mutter

First, apply a patch to Mutter to fix some upstream bugs:

    patch -Np1 -i ../mutter-3.32.2-upstream_fixes-1.patch

Install Mutter by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests require an active X session to run correctly. A few tests may fail depending on the gobject-introspection version installed as well.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter-4.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-4

### Short Descriptions

mutter | is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager.
`libmutter-4.so` | contains the Mutter API functions.

Last updated on 2019-08-25 11:35:01 -0700

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