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-11.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/mutter/42/mutter-42.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/42/mutter-42.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 18b6f716ba0f6b899ed2edb08ab4ca68
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 130 MB (without tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (Using parallelism=4, add 1.0 SBU for tests)
gnome-settings-daemon-42.2, graphene-1.10.8, libxcvt-0.1.2, libxkbcommon-1.4.1, pipewire-0.3.56, and Zenity-3.42.1
desktop-file-utils-0.26, gobject-introspection-1.72.0, startup-notification-0.12, and sysprof-3.44.0
libinput-1.21.0, Wayland-1.21.0, wayland-protocols-1.26, and Xwayland-22.1.3. Additionally, GTK+-3.24.34 needs to be built with Wayland support.
Xorg-Server-21.1.4 (for X11 sessions)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutter
Install Mutter by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dtests=false .. && ninja
The test suite requires debug functions to be enabled in the build,
and an external program called xvfb-run. If you wish to run the
tests, you should download and install it before running
meson. You can obtain
it from xvfb-run,
and install it with executable permissions in /usr/bin. xvfb-run needs Xvfb at runtime, and Xvfb can be installed from either
Xorg-Server-21.1.4 or Xwayland-22.1.3. You should also replace the
--buildtype=release
-Dtests=false in the meson command, with --buildtype=debugoptimized
-Dtests=true. The test suite requires the mutter schema
to be installed on the system, so it is better to run the tests
after installing the package.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
The tests can now be run: issue ninja
test. Note that the tests require an active X
session and run best in an existing GNOME environment. The
native-unit is known to fail.
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dtests=false: Prevents
building the tests, and removes a hard requirement on xvfb-run.
-Dprofiler=false: Use this option if
Sysprof is not installed, and you
don't want meson to download Sysprof source code.