muffin

Cinnamon desktop window manager and compositor

TLDR

Start Muffin window manager

$ muffin

Replace running window manager

$ muffin --replace

Connect to a specific X display

$ muffin --display=[display]

Display version

$ muffin --version

muffin is a Clutter-based compositing window manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME's Mutter, aimed at nontechnical users and designed to integrate closely with the Cinnamon desktop.Muffin handles window placement, compositing, and basic window management. It uses GTK and intentionally omits some features found in traditional Unix window managers.

PARAMETERS

--replace

Replace an already-running window manager with Muffin.

--display=DISPLAY

Connect to the specified X display.

--sm-client-id=ID

Specify a session management client ID.

--sm-disable

Disable session management.

--sm-save-file=FILENAME

Load a previously saved session from file.

--version

Show version information.

-?, --help

Display help information.

INSTALL

sudo apt install muffin

sudo dnf install muffin

sudo pacman -S muffin

sudo zypper install muffin

nix profile install nixpkgs#muffin

CAVEATS

Cinnamon desktop specific. Requires X11 compositing support. GPU acceleration recommended. Does not support Wayland.

HISTORY

muffin was forked from GNOME's Mutter for use with the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop environment. It is maintained as part of the Cinnamon project.