mutter VS labwc

Compare mutter vs labwc and see what are their differences.

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mutter labwc
12 40
192 1,446
1.6% 2.5%
9.9 9.8
2 days ago 7 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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mutter

Posts with mentions or reviews of mutter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-10.
  • Weird graphics / Gnome window resizing problem
    1 project | /r/EndeavourOS | 9 Nov 2022
    Kewl. I guess the bug report should go to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter
  • I want VRR (freesync), therefore : how to install mutter-VRR for Ubuntu Gnome Wayland ?
    1 project | /r/gnome | 9 Oct 2022
    Regarding Ubuntu Gnome Wayland, I heard that there is the possibility to get VRR working with mutter-vrr (and gnome-control-center-VRR ?) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter
  • Compositor
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 28 Sep 2022
  • Would love to be able to use keyboard shortcut on this menu
    1 project | /r/gnome | 23 May 2022
    You should create an issue in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter for this.
  • Dvorak keyboard with Qwerty shortcuts on Wayland
    2 projects | /r/gnome | 10 May 2022
    As a result I'm studying the wayland architecture (I like gnome so the compositor would be Mutter) so that I can figure out how to either make a hack or make something legitimate. This is proving time consuming.
  • Found this gem on the Fedora wiki. Look at the Nvidia entry
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 3 Apr 2022
    Hmm.. I'm not sure about the negativo drivers, but if you need EGLstreams working it seems like there are a few build options for mutter you can use? https://github.com/GNOME/mutter/blob/main/meson_options.txt
  • GNOME 42 release notes
    4 projects | /r/gnome | 23 Mar 2022
    pkgname=mutter pkgver=42.0 pkgrel=0.1 pkgdesc="A window manager for GNOME" url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter" arch=(x86_64) license=(GPL) depends=(dconf gobject-introspection-runtime gsettings-desktop-schemas libcanberra startup-notification zenity libsm gnome-desktop upower libxkbcommon-x11 gnome-settings-daemon libgudev libinput pipewire xorg-xwayland graphene libxkbfile libsysprof-capture) makedepends=(git gobject-introspection egl-wayland meson xorg-server wayland-protocols sysprof) checkdepends=(xorg-server-xvfb wireplumber python-dbusmock) provides=(libmutter-10.so) groups=(gnome) _commit=9249aba72a5c4454894c08735a4963ca1665e34d # tag/42.00 source=( "git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.git#commit=$_commit" "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441.patch" ) sha256sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP')
  • Does Pop OS 21.10 use a compositor?
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 8 Feb 2022
    Mutter
  • River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2022
    Wayland is a protocol - not an implementation. It tries to minify latency by merging together some of the components X11 had and tries to do this in a slim and faster way.

    The implementation of the protocol may differ, but I know for example MUTTER (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter)

    This article has nice and not too complex visualisations: https://www.secjuice.com/wayland-vs-xorg/

  • LWQt Wayland DE 2nd Demo
    5 projects | /r/LXQt | 12 Jan 2022
    Stock Mutter - in contrast to this fork of it - would not work either.

labwc

Posts with mentions or reviews of labwc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mutter and labwc you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

lxqt - Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, Wiki and general issues are here.

archcraft - // Source : ISO

gnome-shell - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell

jgmenu - An X11 menu

gnome-unstable

manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥

lwqt-session - The LXQt session manager

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

lwqt-pcmanfm - File manager and desktop icon manager (Qt port of PCManFM and libfm)

openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)