No, apps are free to use client side cursor decorations if they want to. Games typically do for their custom cursors. Gnome may want to do this, I don’t know.

Also, this protocol is currently only supported in GTK4. Wayland clients using GTK3 don’t have access to it. Chromium uses GTK3 but they added support for it outside of GTK. I don’t think Firefox supports it.

This is part of that endeavor. Rather than doing their tiling stuff at app launch time, they want to handle the tiling more dynamically.

I prefer centered because it’s more consistent. Before the window even appears, I center my mouse so that I can move it where I want it.

Yes, it was granted a freeze exemption.

Gnome has its own shortcuts, but sometimes apps would like to have shortcuts to perform actions while the app is in the background.

Wayland’s security focus prevents apps from listening in on all user key presses, which means they can’t know you used a keyboard shortcut unless the app is focused.

The Global Shortcut Portal was made to address this. An app registers for a global shortcut, and when the user activates the shortcut, the portal tells the app that it’s been activated.

Make sure VA-API is enabled in about:config with “media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled”=true. It should be enabled by default in nightly.

Agreed.

I use the Flathub site for browsing but otherwise do everything in the CLI. Warehouse is also nice for managing installed stuff.

In their core arguments, both are right in their own ways.

Flathub has a robust review system, but the reviews don’t really care how an app is packaged. It’s acceptable to take a precompiled package (rpm, deb, snap, etc) and extract that into your flatpak. And once your app is reviewed and up, no one is going to remove your app if it’s using an EOL runtime or dependencies. It’ll only get removed if it’s malware.

Whereas Fedora Flatpaks places an emphasis on standardized packaging and security. They’re all built according to Fedora’s stricter packaging rules, built with the same compiler and compiler options, etc. They’re built using modern toolchains and hardening practices. But Fedora Flatpaks have issues due to their stances on FOSS, legal issues, lack of upstream testing, and a smaller user base of users who may not know the right place to report their issues.

It’s in Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher. It’s still considered experimental in Heroic.

Is the guy controversial?

I know Gnome made an… interesting choice before to feature Karl Marx in their Contacts screenshots.

This is going to be so nice for screenshots. I’ll no longer have to spam the close button after taking a dozen screenshots.

Though I think there’s a clear all button for some reason I never think to use.

What the heck, I thought Microsoft promised Wine 10 was the last version of wine ever.

/s

The Steam Deck is great. At launch, it was cheaper than other PC handhelds and had better performance. And while SteamOS was buggy, the UI was much better to navigate than Windows.

As for a console that game play PC games, there’s just more competition and and less unsolved problems to solve.

The biggest reason the Steam Machines failed is that they were Linux based and could not run Windows games. Valve addressed this problem by creating Proton and making it easy to use.

Honestly, I don’t see a revived attempt at Steam Machines working unless they’re really cheap. Unlike the handheld market, the console and PC market is much more saturated and you have a lot more options.

Fedora Atomic, and by extension Universal Blue, does put the home in /var. It’s to denote that the directory is mutable.

This seems to be a systemd feature, system services can’t touch home directories by default.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/684074

I think a user script would still work. Or you could set the flag that would let system services access your home.

Is this a systemd user service?

I use a resource monitor called Resources. It has a GPU tab that shows the GPU decoder usage go up when playing a video.

I’ve seen an unusual number of posts recently from people on Fedora having issues with the rpmfusion version of Steam. Maybe something is broken with it.

A bunch of Gnome developers meeting up in person and working on something. The focus of Unboiling the Ocean so far has been on peer-to-peer document editing that does not rely on an internet connection.

More information here from the first Unboiling the Ocean: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/12/18/aardvark/