Category: Desktop Environment
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KDE Plasma 6.2 Released: Exciting New Features and Enhancements Unveiled!
Today, the KDE Project has announced the release of KDE Plasma 6.2, marking the second significant update in the KDE Plasma 6 series, introducing several new features and enhancements. Among the highlights of KDE Plasma 6.2 are revamped power management capabilities, which now include per-monitor brightness adjustment, the option to override applications that prevent sleep…
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COSMIC Alpha 2 Launches: Enhanced Bluetooth Settings and a Revamped File Manager
System76 introduced the second alpha release, Alpha 2, of the new COSMIC desktop environment, developed in Rust, for the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 24.04 Linux distribution today. In this latest release, notable new features include a Bluetooth section within the Settings enabling users to pair and control Bluetooth devices, a Gallery option in COSMIC Files to browse…
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LXQt 2.1 Update: Introducing Experimental Wayland Sessions and Enhanced Styling Features
The developers behind the LXQt desktop environment, known for its lightness, have unveiled significant updates planned for the upcoming LXQt 2.1 release, including an eagerly anticipated Wayland session. The most notable addition in LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of an experimental Wayland session, enabled by the new lxqt-wayland-session package. This session will support various well-known…
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GNOME 46.5 Update: Unveiling Mutter Enhancements and GNOME Shell Improvements
The GNOME Project announced today the general availability of GNOME 46.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series to address more bugs and improve performance. GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted…
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GNOME 47 “Denver” Unveiled: Explore the New Features and Enhancements
The GNOME Project announced the release of GNOME 47, the latest installment in its widely acclaimed desktop environment series for Linux systems, featuring several new enhancements and features. Key updates in GNOME 47 (dubbed Denver) include the addition of nine accent colors available in the Style menu of the Appearance panel in Settings, a new…
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GNOME 46.4 Desktop Update Enhances Connectivity to WPA2 Enterprise Networks
The GNOME Project announced the release of GNOME 46.4 today, marking the fourth maintenance update to the current GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series. This update introduces a variety of improvements and bug fixes across the board, along with updated translations. Arriving one month after GNOME 46.3, the 46.4 update enhances functionality in several key…
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GNOME 47 Alpha Release Unveils New Accent Color Customization Features
The GNOME Project today announced the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series, due out later this year, for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Some of the biggest changes in the GNOME 47 desktop environment include support for accent colors (yes, finally!),…
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KDE Plasma 6.1.2 Released: Enhanced Overview Effect and Critical Bug Fixes
The KDE Project announced today the release of KDE Plasma 6.1.2, the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, featuring additional bug fixes and minor enhancements. KDE Plasma 6.1.2 arrives just a week after KDE Plasma 6.1.1, improving the Overview effect by making window title labels more readable and adding bell…
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Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Released: New Bug Fixes and Ongoing Wayland Porting Efforts
Budgie developer Joshua Strobl announced the release of Budgie 10.9.2 as a minor maintenance update in the Budgie 10.9 series of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. While the Budgie devs are hard at work porting the desktop environment to the modern Wayland display protocol, slated for the Budgie 10.10 release, they pushed a…
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Released: A Look at the Exciting New Features
The KDE Project has announced the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.1, the latest version of their acclaimed desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. KDE Plasma 6.1 is the first major update since KDE Plasma 6.0, and it includes exciting new features. Notably, it offers explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users, which aims to enhance…