#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

### Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

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# Mutter-3.38.3

## 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-10.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/mutter/3.38/mutter-3.38.3.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.38/mutter-3.38.3.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 06c849b0356efcccd3e32a809110df8d

- Download size: 2.5 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 139 MB

- Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

### Mutter Dependencies

#### Required

gnome-desktop-3.38.4, gnome-settings-daemon-3.38.1, graphene-1.10.4, libcanberra-0.30, libwacom-1.8, libxkbcommon-1.0.3, pipewire-0.3.22, UPower-0.99.11, and Zenity-3.32.0

#### Recommended

desktop-file-utils-0.26, gobject-introspection-1.66.1, startup-notification-0.12, and sysprof-3.38.1

#### Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)

libinput-1.16.4, Wayland-1.19.0, wayland-protocols-1.20, and Xorg-Server-1.20.10 (with Xwayland). Additionally, GTK+-3.24.25 needs to be built with Wayland support.

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

## Installation of Mutter

Install Mutter by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: dbus-run-session ninja test. The tests require an active X session to run correctly. It is not necessary to run a separate D-bus session if not in a GNOME session, but it provides a clean environment in any case.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Programs: mutter
Installed Libraries: libmutter-7.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-7

### Short Descriptions

mutter | is a Clutter based compositing GTK+ Window Manager
`libmutter-7.so` | contains the Mutter API functions

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