source: gnome/platform/mutter.xml@ 6323b10d

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mutter-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/mutter/&gnome-minor-32;/mutter-&mutter-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY mutter-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/mutter/&gnome-minor-32;/mutter-&mutter-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY mutter-md5sum        "283c54e0f8a37dc54b99a1de0e0b2a2e">
  <!ENTITY mutter-size          "2.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutter-buildsize     "183 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutter-time          "2.2 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="mutter" xreflabel="Mutter-&mutter-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mutter.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Mutter-&mutter-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="mutter">
    <primary sortas="a-Mutter">Mutter</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Mutter</title>

    <para>
      <application>Mutter</application> is the window manager for
      <application>GNOME</application>. It is not invoked directly,
      but from <application>GNOME Session</application> (on a
      machine with a hardware accelerated video driver).
    </para>

    &lfs84_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mutter-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mutter-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &mutter-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &mutter-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &mutter-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &mutter-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/mutter-&mutter-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mutter Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="clutter"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnome-desktop"/>,
      <xref linkend="libcanberra"/>,
      <xref linkend="libwacom"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxkbcommon"/>,
      <xref linkend="pipewire"/>,
      <xref linkend="upower"/>, and
      <xref linkend="zenity"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> and
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (Required to
    build the Wayland compositor)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
      <xref linkend="wayland"/>, 
      <xref linkend="wayland-protocols"/>, and
      <xref linkend="xorg-server"/> (with <command>Xwayland</command>).
      Additionally, <xref linkend="gtk3"/> needs to be built with
      <application>Wayland</application> support.
    </para>

    <!-- NOTE: Mutter compiles git versions of COGL and Clutter for it's own
    internal use. This is because the wayland support upstream isn't advanced
    enough for the graphics stack used in Mutter. -->

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mutter"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Mutter</title>

    <para>
      First, apply a patch to Mutter to fix some upstream bugs:
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../mutter-&mutter-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Mutter</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

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

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          mutter
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libmutter-4.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-4
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="mutter-prog">
        <term><command>mutter</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a <application>Clutter</application> based compositing
            <application>GTK+</application> Window Manager.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="mutter mutter-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-mutter">mutter</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libmutter">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmutter-4.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Mutter</application> API functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="mutter libmutter">
            <primary sortas="c-libmutter">libmutter-4.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>