GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes

[openminded]

>>- Various crash fixes, Wayland fixes, and other work

Still no word from gnomies like Alexmitter or mirmirmir who used to come to every KDE thread to post a salty comment on "another batch of Wayland fixes, lololol". Took a day off?
Oh wait, Gnome is another story, right?
Sorry Gnomers, it's just a sidenote.

[finalzone]

Still overdue is the fix related to screen rotation on Wayland session affecting multiple convertible laptops. Currently, extension like Screen Rotate which uses Mutter's Dbus API seems like the most suitable solution.

[timrichardson]

I wish they would add hidpi xwayland support. After using KDE, going back to blurry windows in Gnome is like going 10 years backwards.

It works fine with integer scaling. so hidpi in the Apple sense works just like KDE.
KDE's breakthrough is for fractional scaling.

[whitor]

GNOME Shell supports proper HiDPI rendering for XWayland apps with integer scaling. It turns blurry only if you turn on fractional scaling via

scale-monitor-framebuffer

, which is one of the reasons for not enabling that feature by default.

[Pajn]

They've had HiDPI support for *many* years now. Do you mean fractional scaling?

Even integer scaling turns blurry due to mutter using the wrong scaling filter https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1787
But yes, I do mean for fractional scaling. Integer scaling doesn't work for actual monitors.

[moonlite]

I wish they would add hidpi xwayland support. After using KDE, going back to blurry windows in Gnome is like going 10 years backwards.

They've had HiDPI support for *many* years now. Do you mean fractional scaling?

[uid313]

I hope I can run this without any dependencies on X.Org Server o XWayland.

[darkdragon-001]

You can find a list of notable changes planned for the final release here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engag...es/-/issues/43

I am still hoping for sharing wifi networks via QR code currently only blocked by coding style issues gets merged: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome..._requests/1411

[Pajn]

I wish they would add hidpi xwayland support. After using KDE, going back to blurry windows in Gnome is like going 10 years backwards.

[Mani]

Going to be a promising release.

Does anyone know what "Service channel support" is supposed to mean?