Category: Gnome
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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 47 Release Candidate Rolls Out for Public Testing
After a one-week postponement, the GNOME Project has officially released the Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series, inviting the public to partake in testing it. This Release Candidate of GNOME 47 arrives two weeks following the beta release and it incorporates experimental color management protocol support in the Mutter…
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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 Introduces Official Extension to Support Legacy Tray Icons
As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell” that are developed and maintained by GNOME developers. Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions that use GNOME Shell, doesn’t…
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GNOME’s New Video Player Now Available on Flathub
Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained app called Showtime? If so, you may be just as excited to hear that it’s now available to install from Flathub. This means you no longer need to set-up the…
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Anticipated Release Date for GNOME 47 Desktop Environment: September 18th, 2024
The six-month-long development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment kicked off and the release schedule was published suggesting a final release date of September 18th, 2024. While we are enjoying the many goodies of the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment on our Fedora Linux 40 Workstation or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) releases,…
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Introducing GNOME 46 “Kathmandu”: New Desktop Environment Release and Its Features
The GNOME Project has unveiled GNOME 46, a significant new series of their beloved desktop environment specifically designed for GNU/Linux systems. This version encompasses new features, enhancements, updated applications, and more. Tagged as “Kathmandu”, in honor of the host city for the GNOME.Asia 2023 conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, the GNOME 46 desktop environment is here…
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Exploring the Top New Features of GNOME 46
GNOME 46 is released on March 20 and the update will be at the heart of next month’s Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release — wondering what kind of improvements is brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, innit. In this post I run-through the best GNOME 46 features, changes, and usability enhancements. And there’s a fair bit, including…
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Possible Removal of XOrg Session in Fedora 41 Workstation: A Fedora Project Update
The Fedora Project is contemplating eliminating the XOrg (X11) session as a default from the Fedora Linux 41 release, scheduled for later this year, in its primary Fedora Linux Workstation edition that features the GNOME desktop. Having decided to exclude the XOrg session for Fedora’s KDE Spin in the forthcoming Fedora Linux 40 release, which…