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# Mutter
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Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
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When used as a Wayland display server, it runs on top of KMS and libinput. It
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implements the compositor side of the Wayland core protocol as well as various
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protocol extensions. It also has functionality related to running X11
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applications using Xwayland.
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When used on top of Xorg it acts as a X11 window manager and compositing manager.
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It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management,
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window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and
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monitor configuration.
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Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library
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used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a
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scene graph and user interface toolkit.
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2018-11-08 15:03:35 +00:00
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Mutter is used by, for example, GNOME Shell, the GNOME core user interface, and
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by Gala, elementary OS's window manager. It can also be run standalone, using
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the command "mutter", but just running plain mutter is only intended for
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debugging purposes.
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2019-02-06 10:41:43 +00:00
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## Contributing
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To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.
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2023-12-18 18:12:57 +00:00
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It can be useful to first look at the
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[GNOME Handbook](https://handbook.gnome.org/development.html) and the
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documentation and API references below first.
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## Documentation
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- [Coding style and conventions](doc/coding-style.md)
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- [Git conventions](doc/git-conventions.md)
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- [Code overview](doc/code-overview.md)
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- [Building and Running](doc/building-and-running.md)
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- [Debugging](doc/debugging.md)
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- [Monitor configuration](doc/monitor-configuration.md)
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## API Reference
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2024-01-10 19:33:25 +00:00
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- Meta: <https://mutter.gnome.org/meta/>
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- Clutter: <https://mutter.gnome.org/clutter/>
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- Cogl: <https://mutter.gnome.org/cogl/>
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- Mtk: <https://mutter.gnome.org/mtk/>
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2024-05-06 17:20:02 +00:00
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## Meetings
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There are [recurring meetings](https://hedgedoc.gnome.org/s/ymP_L5MUs) to
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discuss development of GNOME Shell, mutter and related components.
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## License
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Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
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version 2 or later. See the [COPYING][license] file for detalis.
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[bug-tracker]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues
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[license]: COPYING
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