Deepin Mutter

Description: Base window manager component for Deepin.

Mutter is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor; it became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity which uses GTK+ for rendering, while Mutter uses a graphics library called Clutter, and through it also supports OpenGL.

Mutter is extensible with plugins and supports numerous visual effects. For example, deepin-wm is written as a plugin to Mutter.

This project is a fork of Mutter to avoid DDE depending on GNOME with some special hacking work, include applying some patches, using the gsettings under com.deepin.wrap.gnome instead of org.gnome, etc. And Deepin Mutter just could coexists with Mutter to make the porting work easier.

Dependencies

Build dependencies

debhelper (>= 9)
intltool (>= 0.41)
gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.15)
gobject-introspection (>= 1.41.3)
gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.15.92)

Runtime dependencies

cairo (>= 1.10.0)
clutter-1.0 (>= 1.21.3)
clutter-wayland-1.0
clutter-wayland-compositor-1.0
cogl-1.0 (>= 1.17.1)
deepin-desktop-schemas
gbm (>= 10.3)
glib2.0 (>= 2.35.1)
gnome-desktop-3.0 (>= 3.10)
gnome-themes-standard
gobject-introspection-1.0 (>= 0.9.12)
gtk+-3.0 (>= 3.9.11)
gudev-1.0
ice
json-glib-1.0 (>= 0.13.2)
libcanberra-gtk3
libinput
libstartup-notification-1.0 (>= 0.7)
libsystemd (>= 212)
pango (>= 1.2.0)
sm
upower-glib (>= 0.99.0)
wayland-server (>= 1.6.90)
x11
x11-xcb
xcb-randr
xcomposite (>= 1:0.2)
xcursor
xdamage
xext
xfixes
xi (>= 2:1.6.0)
xinerama
xkbcommon (>= 0.4.3)
xkbcommon-x11
xkbfile
xrandr
xrender
xt
zenity

Installation

Debian 8.0 (jessie)

Install prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install \
               cdbs \
               debhelper \
               gnome-pkg-tools \
               dh-autoreconf \
               intltool \
               gtk-doc-tools \
               gobject-introspection \
               gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev \
               deepin-desktop-schemas \
               deepin-desktop-schemas \
               gnome-themes-standard \
               libcairo2-dev \
               libcanberra-gtk3-dev \
               libclutter-1.0-dev \
               libcogl-dev \
               libgbm-dev \
               libgirepository1.0-dev \
               libglib2.0-dev \
               libgnome-desktop-3-dev \
               libgtk-3-dev \
               libgudev-1.0-dev \
               libice-dev \
               libinput-dev \
               libjson-glib-dev \
               libpam0g-dev \
               libpango1.0-dev \
               libsm-dev \
               libstartup-notification0-dev \
               libsystemd-dev \
               libupower-glib-dev \
               libwayland-dev \
               libx11-dev \
               libx11-xcb-dev \
               libxcb-randr0-dev \
               libxcomposite-dev \
               libxcursor-dev \
               libxdamage-dev \
               libxext-dev \
               libxfixes-dev \
               libxi-dev \
               libxinerama-dev \
               libxkbcommon-dev \
               libxkbcommon-x11-dev \
               libxkbfile-dev \
               libxrandr-dev \
               libxrender-dev \
               libxt-dev \
               xkb-data \
               zenity

Build

$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr \
               --libexecdir=/usr/lib/deepin-mutter \
               --sysconfdir=/etc \
               --enable-gtk-doc \
               --disable-schemas-compile \
               --enable-wayland \
               --enable-native-backend \
               --enable-compile-warnings=minimum
$ make

If you have isolated testing build environment (say a docker container), you can install it directly

$ sudo make install

Or, generate package files and install Deepin Mutter with it

$ debuild -uc -us ...
$ sudo dpkg -i ../deepin-mutter-*deb

Usage

Run Deepin Mutter to replace current window manager with the command below

$ deepin-mutter --replace &

Getting help

Any usage issues can ask for help via

Getting involved

We encourage you to report issues and contribute changes

License

Deepin Mutter is licensed under GPLv3.

sonald/deepin-mutter