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Tux
Asked: 2020-05-24 06:53:07 +0800 CST

Use Mutter on Gnome Flashback

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I would like to use Mutter as a window manager on Gnome Flashback. According to GNOME website, this should be possible:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback

"Metacity: The window manager of GNOME Flashback, optionally other window managers such as mutter can be used but Metacity is the one thats officially supported."

mutter gnome-flashback 20.04

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    With mutter --replace you replace the current widow manager with mutter.

    I am not sure that can in this case means "it can out-of-the-box" or "it can but only after spending many sleepless nights trying to do it".

    It might be that after replacing it, nothing works anymore (in that case, you can always switch to a tty and restart the X server)

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