Mutter (software)

Mutter
Developer(s)GNOME Project
Initial releaseApril 2011 (2011-04)
Stable release
47.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 October 2024 (19 October 2024)
Repositorygitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
Size40.2 kB (amd64 .deb package)[2]
Type
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[3]
Websitemutter.gnome.org

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity[4] which used GTK for rendering. "Mutter" is a combination of "Metacity" and "Clutter".

  1. ^ "47.1".
  2. ^ "Debian Mutter Package in sid". Debian Packages.
  3. ^ "COPYING · master · GNOME / mutter". GNOME GitLab. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  4. ^ Vervloesem, Koen (2009-08-04). "Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3". LWN.net. Retrieved 2011-12-27.

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