Mutter Wayland FOR LINUX

Mutter Wayland is an open source window manager program for the GNOME project, specifically designed to support the modern Wayland display server. It is also known as the official port of Mutter for Wayland.

The project has been successfully ported to the Wayland display server on September 2013. Its main design goal is to replace the standard Mutter version when GNOME will switch to the modern Wayland window system.

Mutter is an open source project designed to replace the deprecated Metacity window manager in the GNOME desktop environment, offering compositing functionality among other unique features.

Both Mutter and Mutter Wayland projects are distributed as part of the GNOME project, providing decorations for all windows. They use GTK+ for drawing window frames and doesn’t reveal the concept of "window manager" to the end-user.

A window manager doesn’t try to be a desktop environment, thus there are various open source window managers out there that can easily replace an entire desktop environment.

Key Features:

• Designed for the GNOME project


• Supports the modern Wayland display server


• Replaces the standard Mutter version


• Open source project with compositing functionality


• Uses GTK+ for drawing window frames

Technical Specifications:

• Global keyboard shortcuts


• Alt+Tab for forward cycling between active windows


• Alt+Shift+Tab for backward cycling between active windows


• Alt+Ctrl+Tab for forward cycling between panels


• Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Tab for backward cycling between panels


• Alt+Escape for cycling between active windows


• Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow for navigating to the previous workspace


• Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow for navigating to the next workspace


• Ctrl+Alt+D for minimizing all windows and displaying the desktop


• Window mouse bindings and keybindings


• Session management integration

Summary:

Mutter Wayland is an important component for porting the GNOME desktop environment to the Wayland display server. It offers users the same features as the current Mutter program.