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GNOME Triple Buffering Now Works With Direct Scanout & VRR


It's still not looking like triple buffering will land for GNOME 48 with the feature freeze set for next weekend

But that Mutter dynamic triple buffering support has been improved upon and now at least is working for direct scan-out situations as well as variable rate refresh (VRR). Ubuntu desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt with Canonical who has been leading the years-long GNOME triple buffering effort has been updating the patches again more recently. In any event Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions among others continue to carry these patches for enhancing the GNOME desktop experience on lower-end hardware.

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