GNOME's Mutter Window Manager Now Supports Tablet Wheel Events on Wayland

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Mutter composite and window manager of the widely-used GNOME desktop environment was updated recently both on the stable and devel channels with a bunch of new features and improvements.

Mutter 3.24.4 is now the latest stable build of the application, and it’s here to add a few important changes for tablets, including improved stability of tablet plugs and unplugs, working window moving and resizing via tablet tools, as well as the implementation of tablet rings/strips configuration.

In addition, Mutter now no longer throttles motion events on tablet tools, it’s capable of handling the left-handed mode on pen/eraser devices, and adds support for tablet wheel events when running under the Wayland display server. Talking about Wayland, the Wacom cursor offset should now work as expected in Mutter 3.24.4.

Several other miscellaneous bugs were fixed in this new stable release of Mutter, along with two crashes that occurred when attempting to decrease the number of… (read more)

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