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Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18


Lab Wayland Compositor 'labwc' v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library.

Labwc 0.8 also adds new "fullscreen" and "fullscreenForced" options to its tearing options, optionally allow keybindings when the session is locked, adding resistance when dragging tiled/maximized windows, support for renderer loss recovery, support for xinitrc scripts to configure the XWayland server on launch, support for relative tablet motion, and other features and fixes. Downloads and more details on the Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 release via GitHub.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. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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