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Mutter can function as a standalone window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell, [5] which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plug-ins, and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plug-in to Mutter.
GNOME Shell is tightly integrated with Mutter, a compositing window manager and Wayland compositor. It is based upon Clutter to provide visual effects and hardware acceleration . [ 20 ] According to GNOME Shell maintainer [ 21 ] Owen Taylor, it is set up as a Mutter plugin largely written in JavaScript [ 22 ] and uses GUI widgets provided by ...
Metacity (GNOME) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) Yes Yes Yes Yes Gnome Shell No Yes Moody: Motif Window Manager (mwm) No No Yes No [h] Openbox: Yes Depends [c] Yes Yes Depends [c] No Yes PekWM: Yes No Yes Partial No Yes Yes PlayWM [citation needed] Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Qtile: Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Ragnar: Ratpoison: No No ...
Metacity / m ə ˈ t æ s ɪ t i / [2] was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment [3] [4] until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3. [5] It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.
It has been replaced in GNOME 3 by default with GNOME Shell, which only works with the Mutter window manager. GNOME Panel served as Fallback Mode until GNOME 3.8 when Mutter could not be executed, [111] then it was replaced with a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions named GNOME Classic. [112]
Maynard is a graphical shell and has been written as a plug-in for Weston, just as the GNOME Shell has been written as a plug-in to Mutter. [78] The Raspberry Pi Foundation in collaboration with Collabora released Maynard and work on improving performance and memory consumption. [79] [80]
Mutter (Metacity + Clutter) has replaced Metacity as the default window manager for GNOME. It is featured in the GNOME Shell component of GNOME 3.0. It uses the display engine Clutter, which has been ported to all major operating systems, netbooks and smartphones.
Example of an application that uses Client-Side Decoration to draw its own window controls. (GtkHeaderBar widget on GNOME Files, 2014-01). Client-side decoration (CSD) is the concept of allowing a graphical application software to be responsible for drawing its own window decorations, historically the responsibility of the window manager.