Gnome 45
GNOME 45 is already here. A few days ago the first beta version was released which I haven’t tried yet but and i decided to test a first alpha&beta mixed version on my historic Dell 7548 Touch screen UHD notebook (insane quality monitor not supported by a decent graphics card).
After upgrading Arch Linux over 2GB to the current version and fixing missing or outdated keys I applied Fabian Bornschein’s FGCU repositories.
I created a video but had to reduce the quality to 30fps with some clips at 720p due to Notebook GPU limitation.
GNOME 45 FGCU updated packages:
- adwaita-cursors-45beta-1
- adwaita-icon-theme-45beta-1
- baobab-45alpha-1
- epiphany-45beta-1
- evince-45alpha-1
- gedit-46.0-0.1
- gnome-backgrounds-45beta-1
- gnome-builder-45alpha-2
- gnome-calculator-45beta-1
- gnome-calls-44.2-0.2
- gnome-characters-45alpha-1
- gnome-control-center-45alpha-1
- gnome-font-viewer-45alpha-1
- gnome-maps-45alpha-1
- gnome-remote-desktop-45alpha-1
- gnome-settings-daemon-45alpha-1
- gnome-shell-1:45alpha-1
- gnome-shell-extensions-45alpha-1
- gnome-software-45beta-1
- gnome-system-monitor-45beta-1
- gnome-text-editor-45alpha-1
- gnome-weather-45alpha-1
- gsettings-desktop-schemas-45alpha-1
- gtk4-1:4.11.3-1
- libnautilus-extension-45alpha-1
- mutter-45alpha-1
- nautilus-45alpha-1
- sushi-45alpha2-1
- webkitgtk-6.0-2.41.6-2
- xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-45alpha-1
GNOME 45 News
- Support input capture and emulated input with libei
- Add KMS thread
- Fix touch move operations on subsurfaces
- Fix unexpected cursor changes over non-resizable windows
- Improve render time estimates
- Fix flickering when DRI driver isn’t available
- Fix restoring maximized state of SSD windows
- Add support for YUV formats
- Fix xwayland-allow-byte-swapped-clients setting
- Misc. bug fixes and cleanups
And more….
- Load extensions as modules
- Run “perf” tests as external scripts
- Remove toLocaleFormat() from date
- Use Tecla for keyboard layout previews
- Fix accessibility of quick settings sliders
- Port to EcmaScript modules
- Overhaul ExtensionUtils API for modules
- Add a camera indicator
- Add keyboard backlight quick toggle
- Hide popup menu ornaments by default
- Improve light style variant
- Add InjectionManager convenience API for extensions
- Use per-direction labels on ring/strip tablet actions
Fabian Bornschein’s FGCU repositories (Arch)
- Install and trust the signing-key first:
# pacman-key --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 6E58E886A8E07538A2485FAED6A4F386B4881229 # pacman-key --lsign-key 6E58E886A8E07538A2485FAED6A4F386B4881229
- Official page mirror doesn’t work at the moment and I had to use this:
# pacman -U https://mirror.inetol.net/$repo/fcgu/fcgu-mirrorlist-2-4-any.pkg.tar.zst
- add below the [core] repo, and above every other one in /etc/pacman.conf
[fcgu] Include = /etc/pacman.d/fcgu-mirrorlist
- Update all with
# pacman -Syu
- Revert changes removing pacman.conf added code and # pacman -Syuu command.
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