Developer(s) | GNOME Project |
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Initial release | April 2011 |
Stable release | 47.1[1]
/ 19 October 2024 |
Repository | gitlab |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Size | 40.2 kB (amd64 .deb package)[2] |
Type | |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[3] |
Website | mutter |
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".