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🚀 Fedora 43 Officially Released, This Is What’s New / Linuxiac
｢ One of the biggest changes in Fedora Workstation 43 is that it’s now Wayland-only. The legacy GNOME X11 packages have been removed from the repositories, completing a transition that began nearly a decade ago ｣
🚀 KDE Plasma 6.5.1 Desktop Environment Released / Linuxiac
｢ on the Wayland side, Plasma 6.5.1 resolves multiple input and rendering edge cases, such as corrupted output on hotplug events, cursor buffer issues under legacy modesetting, and more consistent color management across compositors ｣
https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-1-desktop-environment-released/
Fedora Workstation 43 brings a few niceties like @gnome 49 and a new video player, but also an important change.
With this release, Fedora Workstation will be Wayland only as we finalize the migration to the new display server. It's been a long road getting to this point, but the day has come. Excited to continue to make progress in this space!
➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-43/
What's new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43?
* New Anaconda WebUI installer
* Automatic updates for Kinoite (which is based on Fedora KDE)
* Latest updates from @kde Plasma 6.4.5 with improvements in tiling, color management, accessibility, and more!
➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-in-fedora-kde-plasma-desktop-43/
Fedora Workstation 43 brings a few niceties like @gnome 49 and a new video player, but also an important change.
With this release, Fedora Workstation will be Wayland only as we finalize the migration to the new display server. It's been a long road getting to this point, but the day has come. Excited to continue to make progress in this space!
➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-43/
Fedora Linux 43: Adieu X11, Hallo WebUI
Fedora 43 macht den neuen Installer zum Standard und fegt X11 aus dem Desktop: Die Hauptversionen mit Gnome 49 und KDE Plasma 6.5 arbeiten nur noch mit Wayland.
Just watched this great presentation from @AdrianVovk at the @allsystemsgo conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCAlzx_x6rY
It covers the migration to Wayland-only, and of the @gnome session to systemd, eliminating tens of thousands of lines of ancient C code (often a quarter to a half of the codebase depending on the module) and providing more featureful session handling, including session saving and processes suspension. The remote desktop implications are interesting too.
Just watched this great presentation from @AdrianVovk at the @allsystemsgo conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCAlzx_x6rY
It covers the migration to Wayland-only, and of the @gnome session to systemd, eliminating tens of thousands of lines of ancient C code (often a quarter to a half of the codebase depending on the module) and providing more featureful session handling, including session saving and processes suspension. The remote desktop implications are interesting too.
Oh thank $deity I can still launch #Chrome with --ozone-platform=x11 even though the configuration flag has been removed. Because #Wayland breaks *so many things* for me.
Surely I'm not the only one seeing dropdowns, tooltips etc. render in top-left corner of my screen under Wayland?
#GNOME #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #YouBrokeMyWorkflow #X11 forever
Oh no. It's true: The mouse cursor image on Wayland is delayed by one frame. 😭
Proof: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/
Great explaination by @lina: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input_latency#c_edq7tn
A failed attempt to fix this in @gnome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4249
It sounds like there is going to be a new kernel API that would allow updating the cursor independently and therefore earlier, but I couldn't find anything about that.
This is bizarre and cool: Term.Everything❗ is an X11 and Wayland Linux tool for running GUI programs in the terminal.
This is bizarre and cool: Term.Everything❗ is an X11 and Wayland Linux tool for running GUI programs in the terminal.
The last BSDCan 2025 video has been posted!
Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca
I'm typing this in my Xuake Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD.
I started this journey on the NetBSD 9.99.x branch and ended up having to dig into the guts of wscons, mesa, libdrm, the kernel drm subsystem, the AMDGPU driver and more. I have a couple of very small, but hard fought patches in the NetBSD kernel. It's not over yet, either. I still have a few bugs around the compositor shutdown process and a lot of integration work to be able to hope to have other people try this out.
Topics to cover in the talk include (but are not limited to):
History of Wayland and other background info
How your graphics stack and driver is organized and actually works
The actual porting journey on both NetBSD and OpenBSD
A Demo! I should be able to show it running
Current status, future work
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Adventures-in-porting.html
The last BSDCan 2025 video has been posted!
Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca
I'm typing this in my Xuake Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD.
I started this journey on the NetBSD 9.99.x branch and ended up having to dig into the guts of wscons, mesa, libdrm, the kernel drm subsystem, the AMDGPU driver and more. I have a couple of very small, but hard fought patches in the NetBSD kernel. It's not over yet, either. I still have a few bugs around the compositor shutdown process and a lot of integration work to be able to hope to have other people try this out.
Topics to cover in the talk include (but are not limited to):
History of Wayland and other background info
How your graphics stack and driver is organized and actually works
The actual porting journey on both NetBSD and OpenBSD
A Demo! I should be able to show it running
Current status, future work
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Adventures-in-porting.html
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