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# Mutter
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Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
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When used as a Wayland display server, it runs on top of KMS and libinput. It
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implements the compositor side of the Wayland core protocol as well as various
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protocol extensions. It also has functionality related to running X11
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applications using Xwayland.
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When used on top of Xorg it acts as a X11 window manager and compositing manager.
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It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management,
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window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and
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monitor configuration.
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Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library
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used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork af Clutter, a
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scene graph and user interface toolkit.
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Mutter is used by, for example, GNOME Shell, the GNOME core user interface, and
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by Gala, elementary OS's window manager. It can also be run standalone, using
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the command "mutter", but just running plain mutter is only intended for
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debugging purposes.
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## License
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Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
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version 2 or later. See the [COPYING][license] file for detalis.
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[bug-tracker]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues
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[license]: COPYING
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