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Mutter (software) and X window manager

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Difference between Mutter (software) and X window manager

Mutter (software) vs. X window manager

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, and recently has evolved to be a Wayland compositor. An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.

Similarities between Mutter (software) and X window manager

Mutter (software) and X window manager have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Compiz, GNOME, Metacity, Wayland (display server protocol), Window manager, X Window System.

Compiz

Compiz is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.

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GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.

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Metacity

Metacity was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3.

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Wayland (display server protocol)

Wayland is a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server (called a Wayland compositor) and its clients, as well as a reference implementation of the protocol in the C programming language.

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Window manager

A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

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Mutter (software) and X window manager Comparison

Mutter (software) has 26 relations, while X window manager has 65. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 6.59% = 6 / (26 + 65).

References

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