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-10.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.36/mutter-3.36.5.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.36/mutter-3.36.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 064c0d9d60fe3497a5bdf3c09b4e0c52
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 248 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
gnome-desktop-3.36.5, gnome-settings-daemon-3.36.1, graphene-1.10.2, libcanberra-0.30, libwacom-1.4.1, libxkbcommon-0.10.0, pipewire-0.3.9, UPower-0.99.11, and Zenity-3.32.0
desktop-file-utils-0.26, gobject-introspection-1.64.1, and startup-notification-0.12
libinput-1.16.1, Wayland-1.18.0, wayland-protocols-1.20, and Xorg-Server-1.20.8 (with Xwayland). Additionally, GTK+-3.24.22 needs to be built with Wayland support.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutter
Install Mutter by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr -Dprofiler=false .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests require an active X session to run correctly. Some (18 of 92) tests require a wayland based session.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
Last updated on 2020-08-20 13:45:48 -0700