Running Mutter
Environment Variables
Mutter automatically checks environment variables during
its initialization. These environment variables are meant
as debug tools or overrides for default behaviours:
MUTTER_VERBOSE
Enable verbose mode, in which more information is printed to the console. Mutter needs to be built with the --enable-verbose-mode option (enabled by default). For more fine-grained control of the output, see meta_add_verbose_topic().
MUTTER_DEBUG
Traps and prints X errors to the console.
MUTTER_G_FATAL_WARNINGS
Causes any logging from the domains Mutter, Gtk, Gdk, Pango or GLib to terminate the process (only when using the log functions in GLib).
MUTTER_USE_LOGFILE
Log all messages to a temporary file.
MUTTER_DEBUG_XINERAMA
Log extra information about support of the XINERAMA extension.
MUTTER_DEBUG_SM
Log extra information about session management.
MUTTER_DEBUG_BUTTON_GRABS
Log extra information about button grabs.
MUTTER_SYNC
Call XSync after each X call.
MUTTER_DISPLAY
Name of the X11 display to use.
META_DISABLE_MIPMAPS
Disable use of mipmaps for the textures that back window pixmaps.
MUTTER_USE_STATIC_GRAVITY
Enable support for clients with static bit-gravity.
MUTTER_WM_CLASS_FILTER
Comma-separated list of WM_CLASS names to which to restrict Mutter to.
MUTTER_DISABLE_FALLBACK_COLOR
Disable fallback for themed colors, for easier detection of typographical errors.