Mutter Window Manager Gets More Wayland Fixes Before the Launch of GNOME 3.22

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The GNOME 3.22 desktop environment should soon get a Release Candidate (RC) version, which marks the end of its development cycle before the final launch on September 21, 2016.

GNOME 3.22 Release Candidate should be out later today, September 14, 2016, but until it arrives, we would like to tell you a little bit about one of its core components, the Mutter window and compositing manager, which has been updated recently with several fixes for the Wayland display server.

Mutter 3.21.92 (means 3.22 Release Candidate) is out now, and looking at the release notes, we can notice that animated cursors now work again on Wayland, along with absolute pointer motion events and XWayland pointer warp emulation. Moreover, several nasty crashes have been patched for Wayland as well.

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