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Niri 0.1.9 Unveils Enhanced Workspace and Window Management

Niri 0.1.9, the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, now features IPC event streams, on-demand VRR, NVIDIA flicker fixes, and more.
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KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New

KDE Plasma 6.2 promises new features like per-monitor brightness control, the ability to override apps that are blocking sleep or screen locking, Wayland color management protocol support, full Sticky Keys support on Wayland, as well as support for tur…

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Oracle Announces VirtualBox 7.1, Here’s What’s New

VirtualBox 7.1 debuts with groundbreaking features, including ARM support, improved UI, cloud VM management, Wayland support, and more.
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Hyprland 0.43 Enhances Stability, New Customization Options

Hyprland 0.43 tiling Wayland compositor has been released, tackling previous bugs and introducing new configurations.
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KDE Plasma 6.1.5 Released with More Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.1 Users

KDE Plasma 6.1.5 is here about five weeks after KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and improves the speed and performance of Plasma Discover’s search feature, adds the ability to drag-and-drop stuff onto a Plasma panel on Wayland when it’s in auto-hide mode, and reintroduces support for moving the focus out of the Favorites grid view of the […]

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NVIDIA Releases Major Driver Update 560.35 for Linux x64 Systems

The latest NVIDIA Linux driver 560.35.03 solves DVI-HDMI issues and Plasma freezes, enhancing multi-monitor setups & Wayland performance.
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Godot 4.3 Open-Source Game Engine Released, Here’s What’s New

Godot 4.3, a free and open-source game engine, introduces new node types, quality-of-life changes, Linux Wayland support, and more.
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GNOME 46.4 Desktop Improves Connecting to WPA2 Enterprise Networks

GNOME 46.4 is here a month after GNOME 46.3, with improvements for connecting to WPA2 enterprise networks, glitches in the looking-glass effect, Persian on-screen keyboard layout, overview startup notification, keyboard navigation in app folders, and n…

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Wlroots Finally Gets Explicit Sync Integration

New explicit sync support has been merged into wlroots, a Wayland compositor library, promising enhanced graphics handling to all Sway users.
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The Unintended Consequences Linux’s Wayland Adoption Will Have on BSD

Does Wayland becoming the de facto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
Before we pop the cork on the champagne bottles and start the celebrations, perhaps we should consider that this good news for Linux might not be good news f…

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JetBrains Wayland Preview Now Available for Testing

JetBrains users wondering when Wayland support might land should check out the latest ‘Early Access Program’ (EAP) builds released earlier this month – Wayland preview, ahoy! At present, all of JetBrains’ IntelliJ-based IDEs on Linux …

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Hyprland Made Its Way to Debian Repositories

Hyprland tiling Wayland compositor has been accepted into Debian and is now part of its unstable repositories. Here’s more on that!
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VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: ‘Modernised’ UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing + More

If you plan on trying the new Linux Mint 22 release in a virtual machine, you could double the fun by taking it for a spin in the new VirtualBox 7.1 beta release. Don’t tune out—most VirtualBox updates tend to be fairly minor, but the upcoming re…

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Hyprland Completes Independence from wlroots

Hyprland has completed its move off of wlroots and is now a fully independent Wayland compositor. Here’s more on that!
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X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41

It’s final! Fedora moves to Wayland-only GNOME, dropping X11 from its media to enhance user experience. Here’s more on that.
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Released With… Well, Quite a Lot!

KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released with a plethora of productivity and performance-minded improvements. Building on the KDE Plasma 6.0 release from earlier in this year, the 6.1 update sees KDE developers deliver “improvements and powerful new feat…

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Fedora Miracle Spin: A New Member to Fedora’s Family

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee approved Miracle, a new Wayland compositor based on Ubuntu’s MIR, as an official Fedora spin starting with F41.
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Slack Linux App Fixes Screen Sharing Under Wayland

If you use Slack on Ubuntu and were frustrated that screen sharing under Wayland was only showing a black screen (or crashing the entire app entirely), you’ll be pleased to hear those issues are now fixed. I’m not a Slack user —who’d …

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NVIDIA 555 Beta Linux Graphics Driver Released with Explicit Sync Support

NVIDIA 555 beta graphics driver for Linux is now available for public testing with explicit sync support on Wayland and other improvements. Here’s what to expect from the final release.
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Enable Wayland for NVIDIA Users

Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of is now login to after installing Ubuntu, anyone doin…

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