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Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 1 January 2020 at 07:14 AM EST. 17 Comments

Drew DeVault released Sway 1.3 RC1 on New Year's Eve as the latest test release for this increasingly popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor built off his WLROOTS library.

Sway 1.3 is coming with virtual pointer protocol support needed for VNC support, repaint scheduling, layer-shell layer changes, various input improvements, support for the tablet protocol, and a variety of other fixes and enhancements.

More details on Sway 1.3 RC1 via GitHub.

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