Smarter half tiling in Gnome Shell/Mutter

Re:Smarter half tiling in Gnome Shell/Mutter by mikekchar on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:12AM (#15398984)

I love mutter. It's been ages since I looked at it, but at the time it looked very difficult to pull out of Gnome (which I don't love). I really should look at it again.

I should clarify that I actually like Gnome Shell, but I don't want a "desktop environment" -- I like a minimal system and Gnome is well past what I would ideally like.

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Re:Smarter half tiling in Gnome Shell/Mutter by hedning on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:53AM (#15399808)

It's pretty straightforward to use mutter without gnome-shell, you just have to implement the MetaPluginClass [1], which is what gnome-shell does too here [2]. At that point you can basically just run `meta_init()` and `meta_run()` in main and you're up and going.

[1] Somewhat outdated documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/meta/stable/MetaPlugin.html#Meta...

[2] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/gnome-s...

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Re:Smarter half tiling in Gnome Shell/Mutter by mikekchar on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:54PM (#15405451)

Thank you! I appreciate it.

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