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Mutter 3.7.2 Fixes Metacity Import

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http://news.softpedia.com – Mutter, a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL, has reached version 3.7.2. Owen Taylor has announced that Mutter 3.7.2 was released and repaired a few problems and updated a couple of features. Highlights of Mutter 3.7.2: • Spurious focus changes when showing desktop have been fixed; • The ability to add shader hooks to MetaBackgroundActor has been added; • Only keyboard mapping events... (read more) (General)

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