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The script is used to install dependencies that are needed both for the CI image and the gnome os system extension. To avoid installing dependencies in an environment where they are already satisfied, they should be guarded by an appropriate check, most commonly pkgconf. Right now these checks are straight-forward: - if a dependency is not in the base image, it will be built when building the CI image - if a dependency is not in GNOME OS, it will be built when building the GNOME OS system extension However we will soon add another caller of the script, when allowing to export a system extension from our development toolboxes to the host. That case is trickier, as the dependency *is* satisfied by the build environment (because it is based on the CI image), but it will still be needed by the exported system extension. To account for that case, add a pkgconf wrapper that only searches in PKG_CONFIG_DIRS in the specified destdirs. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4075>
Mutter
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
When used as a Wayland display server, it runs on top of KMS and libinput. It implements the compositor side of the Wayland core protocol as well as various protocol extensions. It also has functionality related to running X11 applications using Xwayland.
When used on top of Xorg it acts as a X11 window manager and compositing manager.
It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
Mutter is used by, for example, GNOME Shell, the GNOME core user interface, and by Gala, elementary OS's window manager. It can also be run standalone, using the command "mutter", but just running plain mutter is only intended for debugging purposes.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.
It can be useful to first look at the GNOME Handbook and the documentation and API references below first.
Documentation
- Coding style and conventions
- Git conventions
- Code overview
- Building and Running
- Debugging
- Monitor configuration
API Reference
- Meta: https://mutter.gnome.org/meta/
- Clutter: https://mutter.gnome.org/clutter/
- Cogl: https://mutter.gnome.org/cogl/
- Mtk: https://mutter.gnome.org/mtk/
Meetings
There are recurring meetings to discuss development of GNOME Shell, mutter and related components.
License
Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for detalis.