Mutter (software)

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Mutter
Developer(s) The GNOME Project
Initial release April 2011; 14 years ago (2011-04)
Stable release 3.18 (September 23, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-23)[1]) [±]
Preview release 3.19.3 (December 16, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-12-16)) [±][2]
Written in C
Operating system GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, others
Size 500 KiB[3]
Type
License GNU General Public License
Website download.gnome.org/sources/mutter/

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, and recently has evolved to be a Wayland compositor; it became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity,[4] which used GTK+ for rendering, while Mutter uses a graphics library called Clutter, through it also supporting OpenGL. The name is a portmanteau of Metacity Clutter.

Mutter can function as standalone window manager application for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell,[5] which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plugins and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plugin to Mutter. Gala, a core component of the Pantheon desktop environment, is built using libmutter.[6][7] Budgie-wm, used in the Budgie desktop environment, is another window manager built on libmutter.[8][9]

Development

Adel Gadllah added support for HiDPI to version 3.13 of Mutter.[10]

In version 3.13.2 logind integration replaced mutter-launch.[11]

In version 3.13.3 (June 24, 2014) the server side bits of wl_touch_interface were implemented by Carlos Garnacho.[12][13][14][15]

Performance

OpenGL games run with a performance hit when using a compositing window manager; in June 2010, Phoronix evaluated this as similar for Mutter[16] and Compiz.[17]

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.

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