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GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling


Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland.

Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland. José Expósito authored the Wayland DRM lease protocol support for Mutter based on earlier work by Jonas Ådahl that was carried out back in 2022. The main focus on all of this DRM leasing support for Linux the past few years has been on batter handling of VR headsets on Linux.

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