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KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1


There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops.

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops. This work by Xaver Hugl to allow clients under KWin to get proper First In First Out (FIFO) behavior by waiting for vblanks instead of frame callbacks is now merged for Plasma 6.4. This is the Wayland protocol to allow dragging top-level windows during drag-and-drop, such as for dealing with Chrome/Chromium-like tab dragging.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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