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Last change on this file since 1760143 was 1760143, checked in by Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>, 15 months ago

mutter: Add some test info

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY mutter-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/mutter/&gnome-43;/mutter-&mutter-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY mutter-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/mutter/&gnome-43;/mutter-&mutter-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY mutter-md5sum "2aa9fae86f51490b419e747885069e96">
10 <!ENTITY mutter-size "2.7 MB">
11 <!ENTITY mutter-buildsize "150 MB (without tests)">
12 <!ENTITY mutter-time "0.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4)">
13 <!ENTITY mutter-time-systemd "0.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4, add 1.0 SBU for tests)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="mutter" xreflabel="Mutter-&mutter-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="mutter.html"?>
18
19
20 <title>Mutter-&mutter-version;</title>
21
22 <indexterm zone="mutter">
23 <primary sortas="a-Mutter">Mutter</primary>
24 </indexterm>
25
26 <sect2 role="package">
27 <title>Introduction to Mutter</title>
28
29 <para>
30 <application>Mutter</application> is the window manager for
31 <application>GNOME</application>. It is not invoked directly,
32 but from <application>GNOME Session</application> (on a
33 machine with a hardware accelerated video driver).
34 </para>
35
36 &lfs112_checked;
37
38 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
39 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
40 <listitem>
41 <para>
42 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mutter-download-http;"/>
43 </para>
44 </listitem>
45 <listitem>
46 <para>
47 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mutter-download-ftp;"/>
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>
52 Download MD5 sum: &mutter-md5sum;
53 </para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>
57 Download size: &mutter-size;
58 </para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>
62 Estimated disk space required: &mutter-buildsize;
63 </para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem revision='sysv'>
66 <para>
67 Estimated build time: &mutter-time;
68 </para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem revision='systemd'>
71 <para>
72 Estimated build time: &mutter-time-systemd;
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </itemizedlist>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mutter Dependencies</bridgehead>
78
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
80 <para role="required">
81 <xref linkend="gnome-settings-daemon"/>,
82 <xref linkend="graphene"/>,
83 <xref linkend="libxcvt"/>,
84 <xref linkend="libxkbcommon"/>, and
85 <xref linkend="pipewire"/>
86 </para>
87
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
89 <para role="recommended">
90 <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
91 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
92 <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, and
93 <xref linkend="sysprof"/>
94 </para>
95
96 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (Required to
97 build the Wayland compositor)</bridgehead>
98 <para role="recommended">
99 <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
100 <xref linkend="wayland"/>,
101 <xref linkend="wayland-protocols"/>, and
102 <xref linkend="xwayland"/>.
103 Additionally, <xref linkend="gtk3"/> needs to be built with
104 <application>Wayland</application> support.
105 </para>
106
107 <bridgehead renderas="sect4"
108 revision="sysv">Recommended (Runtime)</bridgehead>
109 <para role="recommended" revision="sysv">
110 <xref linkend="blocaled" role="runtime"/>
111 </para>
112
113 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
114 <para role="optional">
115 <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/> (required for tests),
116 <xref linkend="xorg-server"/> (for X11 sessions)
117 </para>
118
119 <!-- NOTE: Mutter compiles git versions of COGL and Clutter for it's own
120 internal use. This is because the wayland support upstream isn't advanced
121 enough for the graphics stack used in Mutter. -->
122
123 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
124 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mutter"/>
125 </para>
126
127 </sect2>
128
129 <sect2 role="installation">
130 <title>Installation of Mutter</title>
131
132 <para>
133 Install <application>Mutter</application> by running the following
134 commands:
135 </para>
136
137<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
138cd build &amp;&amp;
139
140meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=debugoptimized -Dtests=false .. &amp;&amp;
141ninja</userinput></screen>
142
143<!--
144 <para>
145 To test the results, issue:
146 <command>dbus-run-session ninja test</command>. The tests
147 require an active X session to run correctly. It is not necessary to
148 run a separate D-bus session if not in a GNOME session, but it
149 provides a clean environment in any case. One test,
150 <filename>native-headless</filename>, is known to fail.
151 </para>
152 -->
153 <!-- there are no added problems in sysv, AFAICT. Running the tests is
154 not easy whatever the init system. But using the instructions below in
155 a gnome session on sysv works (no test failure)...
156 <para revision='sysv'>
157 This package does not come with a test suite that runs properly in the
158 SystemV environment.
159 </para>
160 -->
161
162 <para>
163 The test suite requires debug functions to be enabled in the build, and an
164 external program called <command>xvfb-run</command>. If you wish to run
165 the tests, you should download and install it before running
166 <command>meson</command>.
167
168 You can obtain it from <ulink
169 url="&sources-anduin-http;/mutter/xvfb-run">xvfb-run</ulink>, and install
170 it with executable permissions in <filename
171 class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. <command>xvfb-run</command> needs
172 <command>Xvfb</command> at runtime, and <command>Xvfb</command> can be
173 installed from either <xref linkend='xorg-server'/> or <xref
174 linkend='xwayland'/>.
175
176 You should also replace <parameter>-Dtests=false</parameter> in the
177 <command>meson</command> command, with
178 <parameter>-Dtests=true</parameter>. The test
179 suite requires the mutter schema to be installed on the system, so it is
180 better to run the tests after installing the package.
181 </para>
182
183 <para>
184 You can also test basic functions of <application>Mutter</application>
185 following <xref linkend='mutter-starting'/>, after installing it.
186 </para>
187
188 <para>
189 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
190 </para>
191
192<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
193
194 <!-- Without "HOME=" one test can fail with certain monitor
195 configuration in $HOME/.config/monitors.xml. -->
196 <para>
197 The tests can now be run: issue
198 <command>sed 's/zenity --[a-z]*/gtk3-demo/' -i ../src/tests/x11-test.sh</command>
199 to remove the reference to <application>Zenity</application>
200 (it's no longer a part of BLFS) from one test, then
201 issue <command>HOME= ninja test</command>. The tests
202 require an active X or wayland session.
203 The <filename>native-unit</filename> test is known to fail.
204 A lot of tests will fail if the opengl rendering is not done in hardware.
205 Don't make any mouse or keyboard input while the test suite is
206 running or some tests may fail.
207 </para>
208 </sect2>
209
210 <sect2 role="commands">
211 <title>Command Explanations</title>
212
213 <!-- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5512
214 If debug is disabled, the "assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)'
215 failed" message will turn into a crash. Enabling debug is just a
216 work around, it's not a proper fix. -->
217 <para>
218 <parameter>--buildtype=debugoptimized</parameter>: Override the
219 default buildtype (<quote>debug</quote>), which would produce
220 unoptimized binaries. It's used instead of
221 <option>--buildtype=release</option> to work around an issue
222 causing gnome-shell to crash.
223 </para>
224<!--
225 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
226 href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
227-->
228 <para>
229 <parameter>-Dtests=false</parameter>: Prevents building the tests,
230 and removes a hard requirement on <command>xvfb-run</command>.
231 </para>
232
233 <para>
234 <option>-Dprofiler=false</option>: Use this option if
235 <application>Sysprof</application> is not installed, and you don't
236 want meson to download <application>Sysprof</application> source
237 code.
238 </para>
239
240 </sect2>
241
242 <sect2 role="starting" id="mutter-starting">
243 <title>Starting Mutter</title>
244
245 <!-- Mutter as a Wayland compositor Works with mutter-42.4 and 43.0.
246 IIRC mutter can also be used as a X window manager: just replace
247 "twm" with "mutter &dash;&dash;x11" in xinitrc. But I've not tested
248 such a configuration recently (I don't build Xorg Server or xinit
249 these days. -->
250
251 <para>
252 <application>Mutter</application> is normally used as a component of
253 <application>gnome-shell</application>, but it can be used as a
254 standalone Wayland compositor too. To run
255 <application>Mutter</application> as a Wayland compositor, in a
256 virtual console, issue:
257 </para>
258
259 <screen role='nodump'><userinput>mutter --wayland -- vte-2.91</userinput></screen>
260
261 <para>
262 Replace <command>vte-2.91</command> with the command line for the
263 first application you want in the Wayland session. Note that once this
264 application exits, the Wayland session will be terminated.
265 </para>
266
267 <para>
268 <application>Mutter</application> can also function as a nested
269 compositor in another Wayland session. In a terminal emulator, issue:
270 </para>
271
272 <screen role='nodump'><userinput>MUTTER_DEBUG_DUMMY_MODE_SPECS=1920x1080 mutter --wayland --nested -- vte-2.91</userinput></screen>
273
274 <para>
275 Replace <replaceable>1920x1080</replaceable> with the size you want
276 for the nested Wayland session.
277 </para>
278 </sect2>
279
280 <sect2 role="content">
281 <title>Contents</title>
282
283 <segmentedlist>
284 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
285 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
286 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
287
288 <seglistitem>
289 <seg>
290 mutter
291 </seg>
292 <seg>
293 libmutter-11.so
294 </seg>
295 <seg>
296 /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{,installed-tests}}/mutter-11
297 </seg>
298 </seglistitem>
299 </segmentedlist>
300
301 <variablelist>
302 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
303 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
304 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
305
306 <varlistentry id="mutter-prog">
307 <term><command>mutter</command></term>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>
310 is a <application>Clutter</application> based compositing
311 <application>GTK+</application> Window Manager
312 </para>
313 <indexterm zone="mutter mutter-prog">
314 <primary sortas="b-mutter">mutter</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="libmutter">
320 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmutter-11.so</filename></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>
323 contains the <application>Mutter</application> API functions
324 </para>
325 <indexterm zone="mutter libmutter">
326 <primary sortas="c-libmutter">libmutter-11.so</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 </variablelist>
332
333 </sect2>
334
335</sect1>
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