Simon Ser News Today

As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May.

Wayland 1.22 released at the start of April 2023 while now Wayland 1.23 is taking shape as the next version of this core Wayland code.

Simon Ser just released Sway 1.9-rc1 as the newest test release for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor.

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code for Wayland has added the 'IMMEDIATE' present mode option that uses Wayland's tearing-control unstable extension to allow for images to be presented immediately but at the risk of visible screen tearing.

In this post I’ll talk a bit about HDR and color management, and where we are with implementing them in KWin. Before jumping into the topic though, I need to add a disclaimer: I will be simplifying a lot of things significantly, leaving others out entirely and as I am by far not a color expert, almost certainly write a few things that are wrong. If you want more credible sources and dive into the details of how all the color stuff works, I recommend you have a look at the color-and-hdr reposit...

Red Hat organized an HDR hackfest to bring together all the Linux desktop stakeholders around the desktop, display drivers, and related infrastructure for helping to make progress on High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support

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