GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident.
medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess…
GNOME accomplishes what seems to be impossible: it’s the most limited and bloated desktop environment for Linux. But that’s not accidental. It’s the result of the arrogance and amateurism of its main…fulalas (Medium)
I'll also be at #fosdem and do a short talk about #Wayland video offloading related stuff I've been posting about, featuring #gtk4, #gstreamer, #Chromium #gnomeshell and #weston
fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…
See you there!
Update regarding #wayland zero-copy video playback (using hardware planes): with a few small patches it works with #Chromium, both with #vaapi (Intel/AMD) and #v4l2 stateless.
Here a short video using a #rk3399 - the #PINE64 #PinebookPro - playing a 4k 60fps video - only possible with hardware plane offloading. Playback is *almost* smooth already (~50fps), the goal is to catch up with #GStreamer where we get stable 60.
I hope this will all get upstreamed in the coming months.
@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. 
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Great read
blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023…
#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #GNOME #Wayland #Android #reverseEngineering #SailfishOS
Regarding the future of video playback in #gnome I'd like to add some more context around current developments in #gnomeshell, #gtk4 and #Wayland in a short 🧵
TL;DR: by making use of more modern hardware features we're finally in the position to catch up to other platforms with regards to energy efficiency. So let's do it!
New blog post from Matthias Clasen: dmabuf, subsurfaces, and graphics offload for zero copy data transfer over the graphics stack coming to GTK 4.14: blog.gtk.org/2023/11/15/introd…
#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.
Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.
Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
ASSIGNED (robert.mader) in Core - Graphics. Last updated 2023-03-23.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Orage Gets #Wayland Support, Major Notifications Changes, and Much More 9to5linux.com/xfces-apps-updat…
#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
Xfce’s apps update for February 2023 is here with news about new releases of Thunar, Ristretto, Mousepad, Power Manager, Settings, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Will Bring Wayland Support
linuxtoday.com/developer/xfce-…
#desktopenvironment #Developer #Xfce4.20 #release #support #Wayland #News
Work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment.LinuxToday
#GNOME 42.8 Is Out to Enable Atomic Mode-Setting for #NVIDIA/GBM, Improve #Wayland and #AMDGPU Support 9to5linux.com/gnome-42-8-enabl…
@gnome #Linux #OpenSource
GNOME 42.8 desktop environment brings atomic mode setting for NVIDIA/GBM, better AMDGPU driver support, Wayland improvements, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The 2023 #X.Org Developer's Conference (#XDC) will be organized and hosted by @igalia.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #X11 #Mesa3D #Wayland
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.Igalia
The default resolution is too dense on the Pinebook Pro, so I had to:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
And then set it to 150% in the display settings.
If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:
Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u
This version requires wlroots 0.15.1, breaks phosh older than 0.20.0~beta2 and recommends following wlroots patches: seat: Allow to...GitLab
There’s finally some good news with regards to restoring VNC remote desktop capabilities in GNOME Wayland sessions. (It’s not fixed just yet.)www.ctrl.blog
