Last week the GNOME 47 development code saw Wayland DRM lease protocol support for enhancing VR headset handling and separately was also accent color support for GNOME Shell.
Adding to the recent slew of changes landing for GNOME 47, the GNOME Shell and Mutter code can now be successfully compiled -- optionally -- without any X11 support or requiring any X11 build dependencies.
For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support.
That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.
In turn this closes a two year old issue tracker over making X11 dependencies optional on GNOME.
GNOME 47 is shaping up to be a very exciting desktop update due for release in September and will be found with the likes of Fedora 41 and Ubuntu 24.10.
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Yeah. Scrolling(amount of scroll per turn of the scroll wheel/swipe on touchpad) has been intentionally slowed down. Another issue is when you scroll fast, the scrolling is stuttery because papers tries to render on the fly when scrolling. There is an open issue to discuss whether this should be the behaviour or not.
But don't worry too much. It was much slower a month ago and yet progress is being made at a great pace and hence I expect it to get better in the near future. Pablo Correa Gomez(the lead dev of Papers) is doing some great work.
Just installed this and (combined with xwayland 24.1) it fixes the grand majority of the xwayland issues. I assume they'll be totally gone when the kwin version with explicit sync drops.
I've seen a 5% decrease in game performance and a game crashed on me for the first time in forever after installing it, so you might want to wait for stable though
I tried Fedora KDE 40, it was hell to install the Nvidia drivers and it freezes randomly and when I play the screen goes black after some minutes and I have to restart.
What? I'm using neon with Nvidia's v550 driver right now. I'll try switching switching to v555 driver as linked in OP via apt once it available through Nvidia's (compatible) debian repos for Ubuntu.
Is that tool a translation layer for CUDA? If so that's expressly forbidden by Nvidia's terms of service. Which might prevent companies from adopting it.
Yes. "ZLUDA lets you run unmodified CUDA applications with near-native performance on Intel AMD GPUs".
Companies developing CUDA applications don't need to implement it because it's a drop in replacement. A bit like how Wine doesn't require developer support (or support from Microsoft) for Windows games to work.
If you mean companies using CUDA applications through ZLUDA, perhaps, although I'd be surprised if that's legally enforceable in most countries.
If you mean companies using CUDA applications through ZLUDA, perhaps
Oh sure, I wasn't trying to say anything negative. Just a heads up to anyone that might have tried to use this in a professional capacity could experience problems.
I think it's more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they're often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.
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