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GNOME's Mutter Now Supports Drag-n-Drop To/From Wayland & X11

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 29 May 2015 at 09:51 AM EDT. 16 Comments

This week's GNOME 3.18 development update for the Mutter window manager brought X11 / Wayland clipboard interoperation so that the clipboard contents can be shared across Wayland and X11/X.Org clients. With the latest Git code, there's now drag-and-drop interoperation.

With this commit there's drag-and-drop (DnD) from X11-to-Wayland clients. With this commit is then the DnD support from Wayland-to-X11 clients.

This work was led by Carlos Garnacho and will be found in the next Mutter development release leading up to the GNOME 3.18 debut in September.

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