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
SYNOPSIS
muffin [options]
DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
