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  <title>Overview</title>

  <partintro>

    <para>Mutter is a GObject-based library for creating compositing window managers.</para>

    <para>Compositors that wish to use Mutter must implement a subclass of #MetaPlugin and register it with meta_plugin_manager_set_plugin_type() before calling meta_init() but after g_type_init().</para>

    <para>#MetaPlugin provides virtual functions that allow to override default behavior in the window management code, such as the effect to perform when a window is created or when switching workspaces.</para>

  </partintro>

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