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I would love to use Mutter for writing a window manager. The compositing features it exposes is fantastic. My main problem is how many hooks (claws) it has in
by mikekchar 10y ago
I would love to use Mutter for writing a window manager. The compositing features it exposes is fantastic. My main problem is how many hooks (claws) it has in GNOME. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but does anyone know how realistic it would be to try to fork Mutter to work without GNOME (and all the associated systemd, etc stuff)?
- sciurus 10y agoI think the Linux Mint developers forked Mutter and used it as the base for Cinnamon.
- mikekchar 10y agoUnfortunately, they simply forked GNOME. It still uses forks for gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-menus, etc, etc, etc. If I'm really serious about it, I should probably just look at the code in mutter and reimplement it without gnome.