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Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49


In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol.

In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol. This protocol discussion goes back two years and for helping compositors identify windows with persistent identification capabilities. "It allows to identify unique toplevels (windows) in order to set their initial size and position ...

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