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KWin Articles & Reviews

The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived   Software   2024-03-04
Tweaking KDE's KWin For Linux Gaming Performance   Software   2012-04-19
Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce   Software   2012-02-08
KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012   Software   2011-08-07
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
KWin Can Cause A Performance Hit Too   Software   2010-05-24
Fedora 9 KDE Rawhide (2008-04-04)   Operating Systems   2008-04-05

KWin Linux & Open-Source News

KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration   KDE   2024-05-11
KDE Plasma 6 Sees More Features Merged Ahead Of Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-05-11
KDE Readies More Changes For Next Month's Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-05-04
Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable   Wayland   2024-04-17
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support   Desktop   2024-04-17
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2024-04-16
KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes   KDE   2024-04-13
KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes   KDE   2024-04-12
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support   KDE   2024-04-10
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync   KDE   2024-04-06
KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color   KDE   2024-04-06
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync   Mesa   2024-04-02
KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week   KDE   2024-03-30
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
KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-03-16
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2024-03-12
KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Released With First Batch Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2024-03-05
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch   KDE   2024-03-03
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship   KDE   2024-02-27
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work   KDE   2024-02-24
More Fixes Land Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0 Coming In Two Weeks   KDE   2024-02-17
Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release   KDE   2024-02-10
KDE Plasma 6.0 Getting More Fixes & UI Refinements Ahead Of Release This Month   KDE   2024-02-03
New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support   Fedora   2024-02-01
XDG Top-Level Drag Protocol Approved For Wayland   Wayland   2024-01-30
KDE Config File Lookups Now 13~16% Faster, More Fixes Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0   KDE   2024-01-20
KDE KWin Merge Request Opened For Dynamic Triple Buffering   KDE   2023-12-26
It's Looking Like 2024 Could Be The Year Of HDR On The Linux Desktop   KDE   2023-12-18
KDE Receives Many Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas   KDE   2023-12-16
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway   KDE   2023-12-14
KDE Developers Continue On Bug Fixing Spree Ahead Of Plasma 6.0   KDE   2023-12-09
KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support   KDE   2023-12-07
KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features   KDE   2023-12-02
KDE Addressing A Spike In Bug Reports Following The Plasma 6 Alpha   KDE   2023-11-18
KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze   KDE   2023-11-04
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games   KDE   2023-11-01
KDE Desktop Cube Effect Returns & Plasma Wayland Per-Screen Color Management   KDE   2023-10-28
KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling   KDE   2023-10-14
FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects   Programming   2023-10-12
KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland   KDE   2023-10-07
KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience   KDE   2023-09-16
Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience   Qt   2023-09-11
KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week   KDE   2023-09-02
KDE Plasma 6 Default Behavior Is Now Double-Click For Opening Files/Folders   KDE   2023-08-19
Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   Mozilla   2023-08-16
More KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes Land, Continued Improvements For Plasma 6   KDE   2023-08-05
KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes "Severe Screen Distortion" For Some Multi-GPU Systems   KDE   2023-07-08
More Plasma 6 Work Continues, SDDM To Be Incubated By KDE   KDE   2023-06-24
KDE's KWin Begins Plotting Path To Vulkan Support   KDE   2023-06-22
Plasma 6.0 Development Continues, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Land   KDE   2023-06-17
KDE Begins Laying The Groundwork For HDR Support, Wayland Color Management   KDE   2023-05-20
The Progress With KDE Plasma 6's KWin HDR Support   KDE   2023-05-18
KDE Ends Out April Continuing Its "Bug Slaughterfest"   KDE   2023-04-29
KDE Improving Its Multi-GPU Infrastructure For Intel & AMD GPUs   KDE   2023-04-15
KDE Ends Out March With More Fixes - Including More Plasma Wayland Work   KDE   2023-04-01
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   Google   2023-03-22
KDE KWin's Move Away From GBM Surfaces   KDE   2023-03-14
KDE Developers Continue Pushing More Plasma 6.0 Changes   KDE   2023-03-04
KDE Plasma 6.0 Sees More Feature Work, Improvements For Dolphin & Plasma 5.27.1 Fixes   KDE   2023-02-18
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released - Better Wayland Support, KWin Tiling, Multi-Monitor Overhaul   KDE   2023-02-14
Sway & wl-roots Land Support For Wayland Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2023-02-13
KDE Sees Many Plasma Wayland Fixes This Week - Plus Spectacle Screen Recording   KDE   2023-01-28
Mesa 22.3.4 Brings Fix For RADV RT Build Performance To Match AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO   Mesa   2023-01-26
More Improvements Come To KDE Plasma Wayland, KF6 Development Enters Next Phase   KDE   2023-01-21
KDE Plasma 5.27 Beta Released With Tiling & Multi-Monitor Improvements   KDE   2023-01-19
KDE This Week: "Pretty Juicy In The Eye Candy Department"   KDE   2023-01-14
Mesa 22.3.3 Brings More Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes, KDE Plasma Hang Workaround   Mesa   2023-01-11
KDE Ends Out 2022 With More Features & Fixes   KDE   2022-12-31
KDE Developers Work On More Fixes & Features For Christmas Week   KDE   2022-12-24
KDE Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   KDE   2022-12-17
KDE Rewriting Spectacle UI, Fixing Paste Issues Under Plasma Wayland   KDE   2022-12-10
KDE's KWin Working On An Advanced Tiling System   KDE   2022-12-03
Wayland Protocols 1.31 Released With Fractional Scaling Support   Wayland   2022-11-29
KDE Ending Out November With UI Improvements, More Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2022-11-26
KDE Adds NVIDIA GPU Power Reporting, Plasma Wayland Crash Fix   KDE   2022-11-19
Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now   Mesa   2022-10-19
KDE Plasma 5.27 Planning To Be The Last Plasma 5 Feature Release   KDE   2022-10-08
KDE Welcomes Ghostwriter To Its Collection Of Apps   KDE   2022-10-08
KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta Week Saw More Fixes To The Plasma Wayland Session   KDE   2022-09-17
KDE Developers Prepare For Plasma 5.26, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Readied   KDE   2022-09-10
KDE Plasma 5.26 Sees More Features & Fixes Ahead Of Beta   KDE   2022-09-03
KDE Plasma 5.26 Will Start Faster, Many Other KDE Improvements Abound   KDE   2022-07-23
KDE Plasma 5.26 To Allow Crisper XWayland Apps With New Scaling Option   KDE   2022-06-18
KDE Fixes Many Plasma 5.25 Bugs This Week But Still Needs More Developer Help   KDE   2022-06-04
KDE Developers Land More Bug Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 5.25   KDE   2022-05-28
RadeonSI Adds EGL Context High Priority Support To Help Wayland Compositors   Radeon   2022-05-25
KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta Released With Many Improvements, Wayland Support Maturing   KDE   2022-05-19
KDE Lands More Plasma Wayland Improvements & Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 5.25   KDE   2022-05-14
KDE Plasma 5.25's Exciting Improvements For KWin, Continued Wayland Optimizations   KDE   2022-05-09
KDE Begins Shifting Focus To Fixing Bugs For Plasma 5.25   KDE   2022-05-07
KDE Ends Out April Porting More Software To Qt Quick   KDE   2022-04-30
KDE Plasma Lands More Fixes, Theme Handling Improvements   KDE   2022-04-23
KDE Has Many Plasma Wayland Fixes In Its Easter Basket   KDE   2022-04-15
KDE Changes This Week "Overflowing With Positive Visual Changes"   KDE   2022-04-09
KDE Plasma 5.25 Seeing Touch Gesture Additions, More Fixes & Other Work   KDE   2022-03-27
Linux 5.18 Has Many Apple Keyboard Improvements, New Razer Driver & Tablet Improvements   Hardware   2022-03-25
KDE Had An Exciting Week With Plasma Available On The Steam Deck, Many Fixes   KDE   2022-02-26
KDE Developers Had A Very Busy Valentine's Week With Many Plasma Improvements   KDE   2022-02-19
KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots   KDE   2022-02-09
KDE Plasma 5.24 Released With Wayland Support In Increasingly Great Shape   KDE   2022-02-08
KDE Kicks Off February With More Bug Fixes, 30-bit Color Support For Plasma On X11   KDE   2022-02-05
KDE Plasma 5.24 Getting Ready For Release, More Wayland Fixes Merged   KDE   2022-01-29
KDE's Very Busy Week From 15 Minute Bugs To Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2022-01-22
KDE Caps Off Plasma 5.24 Beta Week With More Wayland Fixes   KDE   2022-01-15
KDE Plasma 5.24 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support   KDE   2022-01-13
KDE Ends 2021 With More Plasma Wayland Fixes, Root File Operations For Dolphin   KDE   2022-01-01
KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Achieves Better Battery Life Than With X.Org   KDE   2021-12-27
KDE's Bug Fixes & Other Desktop Enhancements For Christmas   KDE   2021-12-25
WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases   Wayland   2021-12-20
KDE's Konsole Can Now Scroll 2x Faster, More Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2021-12-18
KDE Plasma 5.24 Adds An Overview Effect Inspired By GNOME's Activities Overview   KDE   2021-11-20
KDE Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes, Other Enhancements For Plasma 5.24   KDE   2021-11-13
Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer   Wayland   2021-10-28
KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Continues Seeing More Crash Fixes   KDE   2021-10-16
KDE Moves To GitLab-Based CI, Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2021-10-09
helloSystem 0.6 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD   BSD   2021-10-02
Plasma 5.23 Lands More Last-Minute Fixes To Avoid Wayland Crashes   KDE   2021-10-02
KDE Plasma 5.24 On Wayland To Support DRM Leasing For VR Headsets   KDE   2021-09-25
KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements   KDE   2021-09-18
KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split   Wayland   2021-09-17
Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs   Wayland   2021-09-01
KDE Kicks Off August With Many Bug Fixes To Benefit Steam Deck & More   KDE   2021-08-07
KDE's HiDPI Scaling Support For X11 Is Getting Into Better Shape   KDE   2021-07-31
KDE's KWin Reworks Its DRM Code, Many Other Improvements   KDE   2021-07-17
KWinFT Lands Code To Now Use WLROOTS For Wayland   KDE   2021-07-16
KDE Kicks Off July With More Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2021-07-09
KDE Ends June With Wayland Fixes, More Responsive Plasma With Faster SVG Handling   KDE   2021-07-03
KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage   KDE   2021-06-13
helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop   BSD   2021-06-12
KDE Plasma 5.22 Released With Much Better Wayland Support, Usability Enhancements   KDE   2021-06-08
KDE Continues Pushing More Wayland Fixes Into Plasma 5.22   KDE   2021-05-15
KDE Plasma 5.22 Beta Ready For Testing With Much Better Wayland Experience   KDE   2021-05-14
Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable   Wayland   2021-05-03
KDE Plasma 5.22 Now Supports FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync On Wayland, GPU Hot-Plugging   KDE   2021-05-01
KDE Will Now Let You Easily Disable Offline Updates, More KWin Crash Fixes   KDE   2021-04-17
KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support   KDE   2021-04-12
KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland   KDE   2021-04-10
FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress   BSD   2021-03-19
KDE Rolling Out New CLI Tools, Many Crash Fixes   KDE   2021-02-27
VRR, Lower Latency Likely Coming For KDE's KWin Wayland Compositor   KDE   2021-02-22
KDE Sees More Crash Fixes Following Plasma 5.21 Release   KDE   2021-02-20
KDE Plasma 5.21 Released With Better Wayland Support, Desktop Improvements   KDE   2021-02-16
Plasma 5.21 Continues Seeing Lots Of Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release   KDE   2021-02-13
KWinFT 5.21 Beta Pushes a "Monumental Rewrite" Of The Windowing Logic   KDE   2021-02-08
KDE Plasma 5.22 Will Support Direct Scan-Out For Full-Screen Games / Apps   KDE   2021-02-06
KDE Ends Out January With A Lot Of Fixes For Plasma 5.21   KDE   2021-01-30
Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes   Wayland   2021-01-27
KDE Plasma 5.21 Now In Beta With Much Improved Wayland Support   KDE   2021-01-21