"GNOME is a Linux desktop environment that you either love or hate. I've used GNOME and GNOME-based desktops for years and have always fallen on the side of "love." With each new release, I always find a feature or two (or a bit of extra polish) that makes me smile. The release of GNOME 49 is no different. Although there might not be any game-changing features for this release (I'm guessing the developers are holding out until the big 5-0), there's just enough to make it a worthy upgrade from 48."
"With the release of GNOME 49, the X11 session has been officially disabled. That doesn't mean your distribution will leave it disabled, as the GNOME team has made it possible for distro maintainers to enable X11 support. Enjoy X11 while you can, because the team plans on stripping all X11 code from the desktop for the 50th release. GNOME Shell is now a Wayland-only desktop environment. For those who use applications that have yet to add Wayland support, fret not, as Xwayland will continue to work, so those apps will still run."
"Mutter is GNOME's window manager, so it's responsible for managing, you guessed it, windows. GNOME 49 includes quite a lot of improvements to the window manager, such as: Support for 10, 12, and 16-bit software decoding formats Improved factional scaling. Touchpad acceleration profile enabled at login. Support for ICC profiles. Separate speeds for trackpoint and mouse. Support for the pointer warp pro"
GNOME 49 will be released on Sept. 17 and targets a smoother, more modern desktop experience. The default GNOME Shell session disables X11, moving to Wayland-only while preserving Xwayland for compatibility. Mutter receives multiple window-manager enhancements including support for 10/12/16-bit software decoding formats, improved fractional scaling, touchpad acceleration enabled at login, ICC profile support, separate trackpoint and mouse speeds, and pointer-warp support. Several default applications are switched out and the desktop receives modest polish and quality-of-life tweaks. The release aims to be a worthwhile incremental upgrade from GNOME 48 without major disruptive changes.
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