mutter command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mutter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mutter: command not found

Solutions to mutter: command not found

How To Fix mutter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mutter is provided by mutter package.

mutter is:

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.

Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.

This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mutter

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mutter.

sudo apt -y install mutter

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mutter

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mutter command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.