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I love mutter. It's been ages since I looked at it, but at the time it looked very difficult to pull out of Gnome (which I don't love). I really should look a

I love mutter. It's been ages since I looked at it, but at the time it looked very difficult to pull out of Gnome (which I don't love). I really should look at it again. I should clarify that I actually like Gnome Shell, but I don't want a "desktop environment" -- I like a minimal system and Gnome is well past what I would ideally like.

hedning 9y ago
It's pretty straightforward to use mutter without gnome-shell, you just have to implement the MetaPluginClass [1], which is what gnome-shell does too here [2]. At that point you can basically just run `meta_init()` and `meta_run()` in main and you're up and going. [1] Somewhat outdated documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/meta/stable/MetaPlugin.html#MetaPluginClass https://developer.gnome.org/meta/stable/MetaPlugin.html#Meta... [2] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/gnome-shell-plugin.c https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/gnome-s...
- mikekchar 9y ago
  Thank you! I appreciate it.