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Mutter Articles & Reviews

X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023   Display Drivers   2023-01-30
NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04   Display Drivers   2022-02-02
A Look At The Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance With GNOME 3.30 X.Org/Wayland   Software   2018-09-10
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming   Software   2017-09-11
How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance   Software   2011-05-30
Mutter Can Cause A Gaming/OpenGL Performance Hit Too   Software   2010-06-21

Mutter Linux & Open-Source News

Ubuntu Isn't Yet Recommending GNOME's VRR Option   Ubuntu   2024-04-29
GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration   GNOME   2024-04-21
GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration   GNOME   2024-04-17
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support   KDE   2024-04-10
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland   X.Org   2024-04-09
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync   Mesa   2024-04-02
GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland   GNOME   2024-03-29
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin   Wayland   2024-03-25
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-03-16
GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements   GNOME   2024-03-09
GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance   GNOME   2024-03-09
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix   GNOME   2024-03-03
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-03-02
Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-03-01
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
GNOME 46 Beta Released - Mutter Supporting Direct Scanout For Cropped/Scaled Surfaces   GNOME   2024-02-17
New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland   GNOME   2024-02-16
GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too   GNOME   2024-02-11
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility   Desktop   2024-02-10
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-02-10
GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering Now Latency Optimized For Raspberry Pi & X.Org   GNOME   2024-01-22
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations   Ubuntu   2024-01-15
GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2024-01-12
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released   GNOME   2024-01-07
GNOME's Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Continues Coming Together   GNOME   2024-01-06
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023   AMD   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-27
GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"   GNOME   2023-12-08
Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities   Wayland   2023-11-29
GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption   GNOME   2023-11-25
Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter   GNOME   2023-10-26
AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10   Radeon   2023-10-12
Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups   GNOME   2023-10-10
New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor   GNOME   2023-10-02
Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45   GNOME   2023-09-25
GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator   GNOME   2023-09-20
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support   Fedora   2023-09-19
GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption   GNOME   2023-09-09
GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work   GNOME   2023-09-06
GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2023-08-18
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released   GNOME   2023-08-08
GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread   GNOME   2023-08-07
GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder   GNOME   2023-07-05
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023   Phoronix   2023-06-30
GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming   GNOME   2023-06-23
GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes   GNOME   2023-04-26
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements   GNOME   2023-03-22
Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver   Hardware   2023-03-16
GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2023-03-12
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2023-03-07
GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support   GNOME   2023-03-05
GNOME's Mutter Lands Experimental Code For HDR Modes   GNOME   2023-03-04
GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3   GNOME   2023-03-03
GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support   GNOME   2023-02-21
Ubuntu 23.04 & Debian Prepare For Updated GNOME Triple Buffering Optimization   GNOME   2023-02-15
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes   GNOME   2023-02-14
GNOME's Mutter Lands Implicit Grabbing In Clutter To Enhance Gesture Handling   GNOME   2023-02-12
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
Intel Driver Enabling HF-EEODB For Linux 6.3 As Part Of HDMI 2.1 Compliance   Intel   2023-01-27
GNOME's Mutter Adds Support For Toggling Byte-Swapped XWayland Clients   X.Org   2023-01-17
Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44   GNOME   2023-01-09
Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop   Desktop   2023-01-04
GNOME's Mutter Now Allows Building Without XWayland - Nearing Optional X11   GNOME   2023-01-04
AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
Wayland Protocols 1.31 Released With Fractional Scaling Support   Wayland   2022-11-29
Wayland Protocol Finally Ready For Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2022-11-25
Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland   Mesa   2022-10-22
GNOME-Network-Displays Available With Ubuntu 22.10 For Miracast Wireless Displays   Ubuntu   2022-10-09
Debian To Carry Patches For GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering   Debian   2022-10-03
GNOME 43.1 To Support Wayland On The AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260   GNOME   2022-09-25
GNOME 43 Released With More Apps Ported To GTK4, Wayland Enhancements   GNOME   2022-09-21
Ubuntu Talks Up Its GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Support In 22.04/22.10   Ubuntu   2022-09-05
GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2022-09-04
GNOME 43's Mutter Lands Max BPC Property Support To Deal With Monitor Issues   GNOME   2022-08-22
GNOME 43 Beta Released With More GTK 4 Porting, Other Desktop Improvements   GNOME   2022-08-15
GNOME Mutter & Shell 43 Beta Bring Several Very Exciting Changes   GNOME   2022-08-11
Renewed Work Around GNOME 30-bit Deep Color Frame-Buffer Support   GNOME   2022-08-09
Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS   Operating Systems   2022-07-31
GNOME 43 Alpha Released With Browser Improvements, More GTK 4 Porting   GNOME   2022-07-20
Ubuntu Working On GNOME Wayland Support For The AMD Xilinx Kria KR260   GNOME   2022-07-18
Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" Beta Released   Operating Systems   2022-07-14
GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released   GNOME   2022-07-11
Wayland 1.21 Released With New High Resolution Scroll Event   Wayland   2022-06-30
New Progress Being Made On Deep Color Support For GNOME Wayland Sessions   GNOME   2022-06-22
GNOME's Mutter Working On "Max BPC" Handling To Deal With Monitor Issues   GNOME   2022-06-13
GNOME's Mutter Variable Rate Refresh Support Closer To Being Merged   GNOME   2022-06-07
GNOME's Mutter Moving Closer To Pure Wayland-Only Build Option   GNOME   2022-05-31
Wayland 1.21 Alpha Finally Introduces High-Resolution Scroll Wheel Support   Wayland   2022-05-27
GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old "Radeon" Graphics Driver   Radeon   2022-04-17
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1   Phoronix   2022-03-31
GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting   GNOME   2022-03-23
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Will Default To Wayland With NVIDIA For v510+ Driver   Ubuntu   2022-03-22
GNOME Shell & Mutter 42.0 Tagged Following Last Minute Fixes   GNOME   2022-03-13
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support   Ubuntu   2022-03-07
Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February   Phoronix   2022-03-01
GNOME 42 Beta Released - Begins The UI / Feature / API Freeze, More Apps Ported To GTK4   GNOME   2022-02-22
Clutter Is Being Officially Retired   GNOME   2022-02-17
XWayland 22.1 Released With DRM Lease Support, Other Improvements   Wayland   2022-02-16
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Beta With More Desktop Enhancements   GNOME   2022-02-14
GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi   GNOME   2022-02-13
GNOME 42 Improves XWayland Auto Termination Handling   GNOME   2022-01-30
GNOME 42 Lands New Screenshot/Screencast UI   GNOME   2022-01-29
GNOME 42 Lands DRM Privacy Screen Support   GNOME   2022-01-25
GNOME 42 Alpha Released With A Lot Of GTK4 Porting, Other Improvements   GNOME   2022-01-17
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements   GNOME   2022-01-12
GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support   GNOME   2022-01-08
GNOME 42 Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout   GNOME   2022-01-05
GNOME's Mutter Lands Some Fixes For Hybrid Laptop Graphics Crashes   GNOME   2021-12-23
An Optimization Proposed For GNOME + NVIDIA On High Refresh Rate Displays   GNOME   2021-12-16
Raspberry Pi OS Updated For Debian 11 Bullseye, Desktop Transitions To GTK3+Mutter   Raspberry Pi   2021-11-08
Privacy-Screen DRM API With Intel Support Ready Now That GNOME Is Prepared To Use It   Hardware   2021-09-10
GNOME 41 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-09-08
Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs   Wayland   2021-09-01
GNOME's Magnifier Will Now Avoid Double Painting The Desktop   GNOME   2021-08-20
DMA-Fence Deadline Awareness Proposed To Help Ensure GPU Drivers Render On-Time   Linux Kernel   2021-07-27
GNOME 41 Alpha Released With Many Desktop Changes Accumulating   GNOME   2021-07-19
GNOME Mutter Lands New Work To Reduce Input Latency   GNOME   2021-07-13
Ubuntu Developer Still Pursuing Triple Buffering, Deep Color For GNOME   GNOME   2021-07-12
Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable   Wayland   2021-05-03
The Linux Kernel & GNOME Desktop Preparing For Privacy Screen Support   Hardware   2021-04-14
Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March   Phoronix   2021-04-01
NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends   NVIDIA   2021-03-29
GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-03-24
GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut   GNOME   2021-03-19
The Last Minute GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Release Candidate Changes   GNOME   2021-03-16
GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors   GNOME   2021-03-12
GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support   GNOME   2021-03-08
GNOME 40 Beta Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-02-24
GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign   GNOME   2021-02-23
Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland   Ubuntu   2021-02-11
GNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It   GNOME   2021-02-02
Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42   GNOME   2021-02-01
Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes   Wayland   2021-01-27
GNOME 40 Alpha Released   GNOME   2021-01-26
The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input   GNOME   2021-01-23
GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support   GNOME   2021-01-23
Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality   Vulkan   2021-01-20
GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default   GNOME   2021-01-19
GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development   GNOME   2020-12-31
The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020   NVIDIA   2020-12-30
Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors - Avoids GNOME Mutter Crashing   Nouveau   2020-12-30
GNOME's Mutter 40 Alpha Released With Big Improvements   GNOME   2020-12-02
GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread   GNOME   2020-11-28
GNOME Work Moving Ahead On Deep Color Support, Triple Buffering   GNOME   2020-11-16
GNOME 3.38.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes   GNOME   2020-10-08
Disman Continues Taking Shape As Display Management Library For X11/Wayland   KDE   2020-09-23
GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere   GNOME   2020-09-14