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GNOME Shell 49 Beta Finally Brings Media Controls To The Lock Screen
In preparing for the GNOME 49 beta release, GNOME Shell this weekend released 49.beta.1 with a few changes worth highlighting.
There has been this year-old merge request by Florian Müllner that resurrected an old code branch for bringing MPRIS controls to the lock screen. This stems from a 2018 ticket to allow showing music controls on the lock screen just as many other operating systems / desktops also implement. Here is what it looks like as shown by Robert Mader in a post on that merge request:
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