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The meta_window_show() method internally relies on window->mapped being up-to-date, or attempting to focus it may fail since the window is not mapped yet, resulting on the window being mapped, but not focused as it would be expected. This is moot so far, since windows with frames are created sort-of synchronously and showing them will result in the focus attempt happening when the window is already mapped, but things will break when this becomes an asynchronous step. Ensure to synchronize client state before showing, so any attempts to focus the window are able to succeed despite the initial state when calling meta_window_update_visibility(). Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2175>
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.