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Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

Installation

`+introspection`	Add support for GObject based introspection
`+libdisplay`	Enable EDID and DisplayID using media-libs/libdisplay-info
`X`	Add support for X11
`debug`	Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
`elogind`	Rely on sys-auth/elogind as logind provider for Wayland sessions
`gnome`	Add GNOME support
`gtk-doc`	Build and install gtk-doc based developer documentation for dev-util/devhelp, IDE and offline use
`screencast`	Enable support for remote desktop and screen cast using PipeWire
`sysprof`	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture
`systemd`	Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
`udev`	Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc)
`wayland`	Enable dev-libs/wayland backend

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2025-01-29 16:46 More information about USE flags

root #emerge --ask x11-wm/mutter

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose x11-wm/mutter