Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.0

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

Mutter-3.32.2

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-9.0 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Mutter Dependencies

Required

Clutter-1.26.2, gnome-desktop-3.32.2, libcanberra-0.30, libwacom-0.29, libxkbcommon-0.8.4, pipewire-0.2.6, UPower-0.99.10, and Zenity-3.32.0

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.60.2 and startup-notification-0.12

Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

libinput-1.14.0, Wayland-1.17.0, wayland-protocols-1.18, and Xorg-Server-1.20.5 (with Xwayland). Additionally, GTK+-3.24.10 needs to be built with Wayland support.

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

Installation of Mutter

First, apply a patch to Mutter to fix some upstream bugs: 

patch -Np1 -i ../mutter-3.32.2-upstream_fixes-1.patch

Install Mutter by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

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

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter-4.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-4

Short Descriptions

mutter

is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager.

libmutter-4.so

contains the Mutter API functions.

Last updated on 2019-08-25 11:35:01 -0700