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GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps
Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was merged to the Mutter compositor this past week.
The Mutter change authored by Robert Mader is for using opaque formats substitutes for direct scanout along the Wayland DMA-BUF code path. Mader explained in the merge request:"Many display engines, especially older or simpler ones, only support opaque formats. As a result we hit direct scanout paths for common use-cases like fullscreen video playback much more often on affected devices, reducing resource usage.
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