Mutter

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Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mutter canonical 7

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Wayland compositor
free and open-source software
software
window manager
basedOn metacity
surface form: Metacity
developer GNOME community
surface form: GNOME Project
genre compositing window manager
stacking window manager
handles compositing
graphical display
input events
window management
implements Wayland compositor role for GNOME
X11 window manager role for GNOME
integratesWith GNOME Shell
GNOME settings daemon
license GNU General Public License
maintainer GNOME developers
operatingSystem Linux
Unix-like systems
partOf GNOME Shell
surface form: GNOME Shell stack
platform GNOME Shell
surface form: GNOME
programmingLanguage C
replaces metacity
surface form: Metacity
repository https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.git
role compositing window manager
display server
supports Clutter toolkit
DRM (Direct Rendering Manager)
EGL
HiDPI scaling
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
Mutter extensions via GNOME Shell
OpenGL
XRandR-like monitor configuration under Wayland
XWayland
hardware-accelerated compositing
monitor configuration
multiple workspaces
window effects
window tiling
supportsProtocol Wayland
X11
targetUserInterface desktop
laptop
usedAs default window manager in GNOME Shell
usedBy GNOME desktop environment
website https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GNOME desktop environment hasComponent Mutter
subject surface form: GNOME
GNOME desktop environment usesWindowManager Mutter
subject surface form: GNOME
metacity replacedBy Mutter
subject surface form: Metacity
metacity influenced Mutter
subject surface form: Metacity