Mutter Updated for GNOME 3.20 to Fix the X11/Wayland Copy and Paste Interaction

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The GNOME developers are always hard at work patching bugs in the popular desktop environment used by default in many GNU/Linux operating systems, and today they’ve updated the GNOME Shell and Mutter components.

These are among the most important components of the GNOME desktop environment, and it looks like the GNOME Shell user interface is now at version 3.20.3, fixing a memory leak that was also patched in the GNOME Shell 3.21.3 development release, and adding better handling of VPN (Virtual Private Network) service aliases in networkAgent.

Moreover, the sorting of hidden applications in the app switcher should now work a lot better, the screen recorder utility won’t crash anymore when used under the Wayland display server, the support for Nvidia graphics cards was improved by allocating framebuffers early when the system starts, and the keyboard shortcuts for cycle-group a… (read more)

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