Re: Relationship of gnome-shell and mutter

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On 13/02/15 04:29, Kevin Master wrote:
>   * Should mutter also start to support gnome-shell working ?

No. The /usr/bin/gnome-shell executable loads libmutter.so.0 as a shared 
library, just like /usr/bin/mutter does. You should not (and cannot) run 
the gnome-shell and mutter executables in the same X session - only one 
of them at a time can be your window manager.

>   * Where the composite happens, in gnome-shell process or in mutter
>     process ?

The gnome-shell process does the window management and compositing, 
using code from libmutter.so.0.

    S