How To Install mutter on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mutter
mutter is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
Package: mutter Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 391 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1 Provides: x-window-manager Depends: adwaita-icon-theme, gnome-settings-daemon-common, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.33.0), mutter-common (>= 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1), zenity, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgles2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.61.1), libmutter-6-0 (>= 3.29.4), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.13.0), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.5) Suggests: gnome-control-center (>= 1:3.25.2), xdg-user-dirs Description-en: Example window manager using GNOME’s window manager library Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Package: mutter Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 387 Provides: x-window-manager Depends: gnome-settings-daemon-common, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.33.0), mutter-common (>= 3.36.1-3ubuntu3), zenity, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgles2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.61.1), libmutter-6-0 (>= 3.29.4), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.13.0), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.5) Suggests: gnome-control-center (>= 1:3.25.2), xdg-user-dirs Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/mutter_3.36.1-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 127820 MD5sum: e2fe862b849aab86b2dd7e423c7b443b SHA1: f5cb13a925540e1e4042400860a5d08e3268aa05 SHA256: efa3f3634fcdde82576ffe140e31f47bf20d4e7dfa9a05affb714647fda88f5f Description-en: Example window manager using GNOME’s window manager library Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install mutter on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mutter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mutter
Install mutter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mutter
Install mutter Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mutter
How To Uninstall mutter on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mutter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mutter
Uninstall mutter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mutter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter
Remove mutter Configurations and Data
To remove mutter configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mutter
Remove mutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mutter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
