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Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 06:12
On top of today seeing the KDE XWaylandVideoBridge announcement, the debut of GNOME 44 with its many Wayland improvements, and XWayland 23.1 being released with multiple new features/improvements, there is more good news for Wayland fans. Google has merged to the Chrome/Chromium Ozone code support for Wayland fractional scaling via the fractional-scale-v1 protocol...

Valve Officially Announces Counter-Strike 2

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 00:50
Following recent rumors and leaks, Valve today officially announced Counter-Strike 2 that they announce as the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike's history...

XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 00:00
Coincidentally landing on GNOME 44 release day is also XWayland 23.1, the newest version of this portion of the X.Org Server code that allows legacy X11 client applications/games to run atop Wayland environments. With XWayland 23.1 comes a number of shiny new features to continue to enhance the X11 experience on Wayland...

GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 23:01
GNOME 44 is now officially out as the latest half-year update to this widely-used open-source desktop...

KDE XWayland Video Bridge Aims To Improve Linux Desktop Screen Sharing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 22:26
KDE developers David Edmundson and Alex Poi have begun working on XWaylandVideoBridge as a new project to help improve Linux desktop screen sharing for X11-based applications that may try to share the contents of Wayland screens, such as could be the case for some software like Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and others...

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