14 DAY TRIAL // GNOME Project's Florian Müllner announced the release of the Beta build of the upcoming Mutter window and compositing manager for the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment.
As reported by us earlier today, the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment entered Beta stages of development, which means that most of its core components and applications have been updated to this Beta release, including Mutter, which is in charge of displaying and managing your GNOME desktop via OpenGL (accelerated 3D graphics).
According to the internal changelog, Mutter 3.22 Beta (technical version number is 3.21.90) re-adds support for edge scrolling on certain touchpads, implements support for trackball and mouse acceleration profiles, adds support for virtual input devices, and sets the correct output scale during hotplug.
Monitor content now drawn to individual framebuffer
Among other improvements implemented in this first Beta release of Mutter 3.22, we can mention that monitor content is now being drawn to individual framebuffer, and the XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable is taken into consideration when attempting to determine the session type. Of course, numerous bugs have been squashed and parts of the code cleaned up.
Last but not least, the Spanish, Lithuanian, Slovak, Hungarian, Hebrew, Czech, Slovenian, and Friulian language translations have been updated. Mutter 3.22 Beta is available for download right now via our website, but these are only the sources, which need to be compiled for your GNU/Linux operating system. Mutter 3.22 Beta is also distributed as part of the GNOME 3.22 Beta release.
In related news, Florian Müllnera also announced the Beta release of the GNOME Shell 3.22 user interface, which brought only some improvements to the on-screen keyboard for the next-generation Wayland display server, which will be enabled by default for the Workstation edition of the upcoming Fedora 25 Linux operating system.