NVIDIA’s year-long request to add explicit sync support to the DRI3 and Present extensions, and the Xwayland implementation, has finally been merged.
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KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains why the explicit synchronization protocol will finally encourage the Wayland adoption among NVIDIA GPU users.
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A new X.Org Security Advisory was published today to warn users about CVE-2023-6816, a heap buffer overflow issue introduced in xorg-server v1.13.0 (released 2012), CVE-2024-0229, an out-of-bounds memory access issue introduced in xorg-server v1.1.1 (r…
After releasing GNOME 45.1 last month as the first point release to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, the GNOME Project also published today updates for two important components, GNOME Shell and Mutter.
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Birdtray is a system tray icon for Thunderbird, which shows the unread email count, with some extra features. Learn more here.
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KDE Plasma 5.23.4 is here three weeks after the KDE Plasma 5.23.3 update, restoring the Touchpad applet that was previously available in the Plasma 5.22 series. The applet is now available as a read-only status notifier that only shows when your laptop’s touchpad has been disabled. This point release also improves the Plasma Wayland session, […]
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Since KDE Plasma 5.23 will be released in celebration of the project’s 25th anniversary, it’s obvious that it will be a great release that introduces better support for the next-generation Wayland display server, making Plasma desktop more stable, faster, and reliable. The Plasma Wayland improvements include the middle-click paste and drag and drop items between […]
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