MUTTER(1)

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✨ MUTTER — the manual page but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, you opened man mutter and now you're here. welcome. this is the mutter(1) manual page, from the General Commands Manual section, and we're gonna get through it together. grab a snack 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

MUTTER — the Clutter-based compositing GTK2 window manager. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "window manager" and it's giving "compositing" and it's giving "GTK2" and honestly? iconic 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mutter [--display=DISPLAY] [--sm-client-id=ID] [--sm-disable]
[--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--version] [--help] [[--] command
[argument...]]

like, you can just run mutter with nothing. you can also pass it a whole little entourage of options. or you can be extra and hand it a command plus its argument...s, optionally after a --. the way that -- just sits there separating things… we love a boundary setter 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents mutter briefly. briefly! it says so itself. no cap.

mutter is a minimal X window manager that is aimed at nontechnical users and is designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop. that's the assignment and it ate. 🌈

but real talk — mutter lacks some features that may be expected by traditional UNIX or other technical users. the manpage said it, not me. and it has a suggestion: those users may want to investigate other available window managers for use with GNOME or standalone. no hard feelings, fr fr. go find your main character window manager. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per option, exactly as the original lists them, bestie. nothing skipped, nothing merged. 😌

  • --display=DISPLAY — connects to X display DISPLAY. that's the screen you're talking to. tell it which one. ✨
  • --sm-client-id=ID — specify a session management ID. drop that ID in there. 🎀
  • --sm-disable — disables the session management. no session management. none. gone. 💀
  • --sm-save-file=FILENAME — loads a session from FILENAME. hand it the file, it loads the session. simple as. 📂
  • --version — prints the version number. that's it. that's the whole job. 🔥
  • -?, --help — shows a summary of options. when you're lost, you're not alone, bestie. 🙈

⭐ CONFIGURATION ⭐

mutter configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts on the menu-panel. yes, with the -> arrows, that's literally how it's written. click through, you got this. 👑

and if you're feeling like a main character? advanced configuration can be achieved directly through gsettings. that's the power-user route. iykyk. 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the lore, because we respect the lore:

  • the original manual page was written by Thom May <thom@debian.org>.
  • it was updated by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (with permission to use by others).
  • and then updated by Luke Morton and Philip O'Brien for inclusion in mutter.

three rounds of glow-ups on this page alone. obsessed. 🌸

okay that's the whole page, bestie — every option, every path, every name, every email, all of it. go forth and composite. 💖

mutter(1) — dated 11 February 2006 — from the General Commands Manual, in the mutter era. that's a wrap, periodt. 🎀✨

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