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The type of render device used for a specific GPU affects the mode setting backend that can be used, more specifically, when the render device is an EGLStream based one, atomic mode setting isn't possible, as page flipping is done via EGL, not via atomic mode setting commits. Preparing the render devices before KMS devices means can make a more informed decision whether to deny-list atomic mode setting for when a certain GPU uses a EGLStream based render device instance. This also means we need to translate mode setting devices to render node devices when creating the render device itself, as doing it later when creating the mode setting device is already too late. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2578> |
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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 look at the documentation available at the Wiki.
The API documentation is available at:
- Meta: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/mutter/meta/
- Clutter: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/mutter/clutter/
- Cally: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/mutter/cally/
- Cogl: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/mutter/cogl/
- CoglPango: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/mutter/cogl-pango/
Coding style and conventions
See HACKING.md.
Git messages
Commit messages should follow the GNOME commit message
guidelines. We require an URL
to either an issue or a merge request in each commit. Try to always prefix
commit subjects with a relevant topic, such as compositor: or
clutter/actor:, and it's always better to write too much in the commit
message body than too little.
Default branch
The default development branch is main. If you still have a local
checkout under the old name, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
License
Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for detalis.