Arch Linux patch for mutter 44.3-1 to revert commit 3ac82a58 to fix issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2690

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Michael Kanis <mkanis_at_gmx_dot_de>
# Contributor: Mark Blakeney <mark dot blakeney at bullet dash systems dot net>

pkgbase=mutter
pkgname=(
  mutter
)
pkgver=44.3+r0+g99d83f298
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Window manager and compositor for GNOME"
url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter"
arch=(x86_64)
license=(GPL)
depends=(
  colord
  dconf
  gnome-desktop-4
  gnome-settings-daemon
  graphene
  gsettings-desktop-schemas
  iio-sensor-proxy
  lcms2
  libcanberra
  libgudev
  libinput
  libsm
  libsysprof-capture
  libxkbcommon-x11
  libxkbfile
  pipewire
  startup-notification
  xorg-xwayland
)
makedepends=(
  egl-wayland
  gi-docgen
  git
  gobject-introspection
  gtk3
  meson
  sysprof
  wayland-protocols
  xorg-server
  xorg-server-xvfb
)
checkdepends=(
  python-dbusmock
  wireplumber
  zenity
)
_commit=99d83f2985483bc192e1271665c442c7c480a588  # tags/44.3^0
source=(
  "git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.git#commit=$_commit"
  "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3186.patch"
)
b2sums=('SKIP'
        '3d0387881c6aca2bb6af3f9e164371145d2ace238d75857b237d0fc85e88f9dd1475a4dac842d0a5bb6e96c8689ef71a6bf73122fdf7a000a70007aed939403e')

pkgver() {
  cd mutter
  git describe --long --tags | sed 's/[^-]*-g/r&/;s/-/+/g'
}

prepare() {
  cd mutter

  # Unbreak tests with Mesa 23.1
  # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2848
  # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3047
  git cherry-pick -n '5a83e8ef8250526a40e8e69c^..d65883e0d7d70987e3888b86'

  # Fix https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2690
  git apply --index $srcdir/3186.patch
}

build() {
  local meson_options=(
    -D docs=true
    -D egl_device=true
    -D installed_tests=false
    -D wayland_eglstream=true
  )

  CFLAGS="${CFLAGS/-O2/-O3} -fno-semantic-interposition"
  LDFLAGS+=" -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions"

  arch-meson mutter build "${meson_options[@]}"
  meson compile -C build
}

_check() (
  export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$PWD/rdir" GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="$PWD/build/data"
  mkdir -p -m 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
  glib-compile-schemas "$GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR"

  pipewire &
  _p1=$!

  wireplumber &
  _p2=$!

  trap "kill $_p1 $_p2; wait" EXIT

  meson test -C build --print-errorlogs -t 3
)

# check() {
#   dbus-run-session xvfb-run -s '-nolisten local +iglx -noreset' \
#     bash -c "$(declare -f _check); _check"
# }

_pick() {
  local p="$1" f d; shift
  for f; do
    d="$srcdir/$p/${f#$pkgdir/}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$d")"
    mv "$f" "$d"
    rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$(dirname "$f")"
  done
}

package_mutter() {
  provides=(libmutter-12.so)

  meson install -C build --destdir "$pkgdir"

  _pick docs "$pkgdir"/usr/share/mutter-*/doc
}

package_mutter-docs() {
  pkgdesc+=" (documentation)"
  depends=()

  mv docs/* "$pkgdir"
}

# vim:set sw=2 sts=-1 et:

Create a directory and copy this file to it. Then from within that directory, type makepkg -si to build and install the fixed mutter. Takes only a couple of minutes.