Mutter-3.20.3

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-7.10 platform.

Package Information

Mutter Dependencies

Required

Clutter-1.26.0, gnome-desktop-3.20.2, libxkbcommon-0.6.1, UPower-0.99.4, and Zenity-3.20.0

Recommended

Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

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

Installation of Mutter

Install Mutter by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mutter, /usr/lib/mutter, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/meta

Short Descriptions

mutter

is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager.

libmutter.so

contains the Mutter API functions.

Last updated on 2016-08-29 23:02:26 -0700