The GNOME Project today launched GNOME 46.1, the initial point release for the latest GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series featuring several enhancements and bug resolutions.
GNOME 46.1 debuts one month post the GNOME 46 launch and introduces explicit GNU synchronization for NVIDIA hardware users on Wayland. This enhancement boosts performance and fixes graphics glitches. It specifically finds application in the Mutter window and composite manager.
However, the need to wait for a new NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver that supports explicit sync continues. In contrast, the Mutter 46.1 version better supports hybrid graphics by mending secondary GPU acceleration issues with the NVIDIA graphics driver and fixes input delays on X11 with NVIDIA hardware.
Further, the Mutter 46.1 edition enhances the Night Light feature on displays lacking EDID and advances support for a few Xwayland clients. It also corrects the initial suspended state and fixes several other glitches and crashes.
GNOME Shell has been updated as well in GNOME 46.1 to improve the notification of conflicting sessions, add a shift level to the Korean on-screen keyboard layout, fix markup support in notifications, address a couple of issues in the Extensions app, and also fix some smaller bugs.
GNOME’s Nautilus (Files) file manager received fixes for some bugs as well to enable users to create archives with the Enter key on the “Compress” dialog, correctly move the focus when an item is removed, and optimize the overall view performance.
Moreover, Nautilus 46.1 prevents a crash when compressing a file and a folder, no longer shows banners in global search, preserves permissions when copying from read-only filesystems, and disables non-working global search from the “Other Locations” view.
Other than that, GNOME 46.1 updates the GNOME Maps app to fix an issue with the current location marker not moving when updating the location, as well as the GNOME Text Editor app to remove the DBusActicatable=true parameter from the .desktop file, which fixes an issue where you could spawn Text Editor via D-Bus and not have the session restored at startup.
The Orca 46.1 screen reader is included as well in this release with fixes for an issue that caused flat review clicking to fail in some GTK apps, a regression in the SayAll during page load, a crash in Pidgin IM, a hang when “where am I” was used immediately after loading the pages of a large document, and presentation of new radio button groups.
Last but not least, the Loupe image viewer has been updated to version 46.2, a release that fixes the fill-space option not being applied when changing the orientation in Print Preview, an issue that prevented PNG images from being displayed when browsing SMB shares, blurry fractional scaling, an issue that prevented exposure times above 0.5 seconds from being displayed correctly in the Properties dialog, and an issue where the page orientation from the Print Preview dialog wasn’t honored for the actual print.
GNOME Control Center 46.1 has brought up-to-date the Network panel with the support for stable-ssid and cloned-mac. The Privacy panel has been updated to allow the opening of Help pages when viewing Privacy settings. The Sharing panel is now designed to be automatically concealed in the absence of Rygel and gnome-user-share. An update in the Wacom panel checks for the correct output connector name.
The System panel has been upgraded to increase the capacity of passwords generated in Remote Desktop settings. It has also been updated to no longer display the auto-timezone setting when location services are inaccessible. The Display panel has received a fix for a crash that occurred when the Esc key was pressed in the display settings. Furthermore, the Accessibility panel has been updated to improve the accessibility of the “Typing” settings sliders.
The GNOME Remote Desktop server in GNOME 46.1 is also updated to function on Big Endian, and prevent crashes when no user sessions are present. Alongside, the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome has been updated with various fixes for the ScreenCast portal dialog. For more intricate details, you can refer to the changelog on the release announcement page.
GNOME 46.1 will soon make its way into the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions, particularly if you’re using rolling-release distros like Arch Linux or openSUSE Tumbleweed. Ensure to keep your installations updated always if you use the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment series.
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