Category: Gnome
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Enhancing Accessibility: GNOME 46.7 Refines Keyboard Backlight Toggle in Quick Settings
The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 46.7, marking the seventh maintenance update for the GNOME 46 "Kathmandu" desktop environment. This update includes numerous bug fixes, enhanced accessibility for the keyboard backlight toggle in Quick Settings, and improved defaults for GPU settings. One major change involves setting GPUs with built-in panels as the…
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GNOME 47.2 Official Release: Enhancements and Bug Fixes Unveiled!
The GNOME Project has officially released GNOME 47.2, the second maintenance update for the GNOME 47 "Denver" desktop environment series. This update, arriving a month and a half after GNOME 47.1, focuses on a range of bug fixes and improvements aimed at enhancing user experience across several components, including GNOME Shell, Mutter, Epiphany, GNOME Software,…
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Upcoming GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Set to Launch on March 19th, 2025
As many of us revel in the various new features and enhancements of the GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series, the GNOME project is already turning its attention towards the upcoming major release, GNOME 48, which is scheduled to launch on March 19th, 2025. GNOME 48 will be named “Bengaluru,” honoring the city that will…
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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,…