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GNOME Shell and Mutter 46 Beta Released with Numerous Improvements (9to5linux.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No VRR support still. That's the only feature I was hoping would land so I wouldn't have to maintain patched versions of Mutter and g-c-c...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's hard to believe this MR head been open for over 3 years. I don't understand why they didn't release it in 46 as an experimental feature. I've begrudgingly resorted to using kde again just for this feature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Asakayo(MR-author) and the others tried to get it pushed through as an experimental feature in gnome 46 but last I checked, there was discussion going on as to how to integrate in the settings page so it is clear as to what the settings do. And before making fun of them for spending time on 'trivial things', do read the discussion that is going regarding the design. Some interesting points are brought up there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In any case, we're likely to see VRR support land in gnome later in the year. I'm personally glad they took the time to deliberate on the UX as well as underlying functionality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@vikingtons @Sentau There is still a good chance that it will land in 46.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think so. Usually features are not added after the beta release

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As an experimental feature? Neat. Would be fun to tinker with but I'm also happy to wait for the summer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@vikingtons Yes, you would need to toggle a gsettings setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I was previously aware of this, though I thought the window for its inclusion into gnome 46 (even as an experimental setting) was rapidly meeting this deadline?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the ability to remember the window state.

Wish they would add this the terminal app just as they have done with the extensions app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@Sentau @petsoi Try Prompt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you. This seems like what I wanted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks will do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link for that? Searching for software with that generic of a name is kind of a wide net.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@petsoi Hey, @gnome people on the fediverse,

Do you think there is still a chance for the merge requests for #VRR and triple buffering being merged for #Gnome46?

Thanks for this awesome DE btw!

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not a gnome contributor(just a user) but I don't think either request will be merged because usually there is a feature, UI and API/ABI freeze when the beta is released so no new features are added.

Edit : Seems to be backed up by this