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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) and
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 <para>
195 The tests can now be run: issue
196 <command>ninja test</command>. The tests
197 require an active X or wayland session.
198 The <filename>native-unit</filename> test is known to fail.
199 A lot of tests will fail if the opengl rendering is not done in hardware.
200 </para>
201 </sect2>
202
203 <sect2 role="commands">
204 <title>Command Explanations</title>
205
206 <!-- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5512
207 If debug is disabled, the "assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)'
208 failed" message will turn into a crash. Enabling debug is just a
209 work around, it's not a proper fix. -->
210 <para>
211 <parameter>--buildtype=debugoptimized</parameter>: Override the
212 default buildtype (<quote>debug</quote>), which would produce
213 unoptimized binaries. It's used instead of
214 <option>--buildtype=release</option> to work around an issue
215 causing gnome-shell to crash.
216 </para>
217<!--
218 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
219 href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
220-->
221 <para>
222 <parameter>-Dtests=false</parameter>: Prevents building the tests,
223 and removes a hard requirement on <command>xvfb-run</command>.
224 </para>
225
226 <para>
227 <option>-Dprofiler=false</option>: Use this option if
228 <application>Sysprof</application> is not installed, and you don't
229 want meson to download <application>Sysprof</application> source
230 code.
231 </para>
232
233 </sect2>
234
235 <sect2 role="starting" id="mutter-starting">
236 <title>Starting Mutter</title>
237
238 <!-- Mutter as a Wayland compositor Works with mutter-42.4 and 43.0.
239 IIRC mutter can also be used as a X window manager: just replace
240 "twm" with "mutter &dash;&dash;x11" in xinitrc. But I've not tested
241 such a configuration recently (I don't build Xorg Server or xinit
242 these days. -->
243
244 <para>
245 <application>Mutter</application> is normally used as a component of
246 <application>gnome-shell</application>, but it can be used as a
247 standalone Wayland compositor too. To run
248 <application>Mutter</application> as a Wayland compositor, in a
249 virtual console, issue:
250 </para>
251
252 <screen role='nodump'><userinput>mutter --wayland -- vte-2.91</userinput></screen>
253
254 <para>
255 Replace <command>vte-2.91</command> with the command line for the
256 first application you want in the Wayland session. Note that once this
257 application exits, the Wayland session will be terminated.
258 </para>
259
260 <para>
261 <application>Mutter</application> can also function as a nested
262 compositor in another Wayland session. In a terminal emulator, issue:
263 </para>
264
265 <screen role='nodump'><userinput>MUTTER_DEBUG_DUMMY_MODE_SPECS=1920x1080 mutter --wayland --nested -- vte-2.91</userinput></screen>
266
267 <para>
268 Replace <replaceable>1920x1080</replaceable> with the size you want
269 for the nested Wayland session.
270 </para>
271 </sect2>
272
273 <sect2 role="content">
274 <title>Contents</title>
275
276 <segmentedlist>
277 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
278 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
279 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
280
281 <seglistitem>
282 <seg>
283 mutter
284 </seg>
285 <seg>
286 libmutter-11.so
287 </seg>
288 <seg>
289 /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{,installed-tests}}/mutter-11
290 </seg>
291 </seglistitem>
292 </segmentedlist>
293
294 <variablelist>
295 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
296 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
297 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
298
299 <varlistentry id="mutter-prog">
300 <term><command>mutter</command></term>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>
303 is a <application>Clutter</application> based compositing
304 <application>GTK+</application> Window Manager
305 </para>
306 <indexterm zone="mutter mutter-prog">
307 <primary sortas="b-mutter">mutter</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="libmutter">
313 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmutter-11.so</filename></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>
316 contains the <application>Mutter</application> API functions
317 </para>
318 <indexterm zone="mutter libmutter">
319 <primary sortas="c-libmutter">libmutter-11.so</primary>
320 </indexterm>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323
324 </variablelist>
325
326 </sect2>
327
328</sect1>
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