Mutter Articles & Reviews |
| Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2026-03-11 |
| X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023 | Display Drivers | 2023-01-30 |
| NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04 | Display Drivers | 2022-02-02 |
| A Look At The Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance With GNOME 3.30 X.Org/Wayland | Software | 2018-09-10 |
| GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming | Software | 2017-09-11 |
| How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance | Software | 2011-05-30 |
| Mutter Can Cause A Gaming/OpenGL Performance Hit Too | Software | 2010-06-21 |
Mutter Linux & Open-Source News |
| GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams | NVIDIA | 2026-06-05 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support | WINE | 2026-05-12 |
| Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI | Google | 2026-05-03 |
| GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions | GNOME | 2026-04-14 |
| GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements | GNOME | 2026-03-18 |
| GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2026-03-05 |
| GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR | GNOME | 2026-03-03 |
| GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support | GNOME | 2026-02-20 |
| GNOME 50 Merges "sdr-native" Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays | GNOME | 2026-02-17 |
| GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements | GNOME | 2026-02-13 |
| VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing | GNOME | 2026-02-06 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling | GNOME | 2026-02-04 |
| GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI | GNOME | 2026-02-03 |
| GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental | GNOME | 2026-01-31 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 Aims To Deliver Better NVIDIA Wayland Performance Atop GNOME | Ubuntu | 2026-01-16 |
| GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted | GNOME | 2026-01-15 |
| GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed | GNOME | 2026-01-14 |
| Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes | Debian | 2026-01-10 |
| Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November | Phoronix | 2025-12-01 |
| GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others | GNOME | 2025-11-07 |
| GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" | GNOME | 2025-11-05 |
| Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel's Adaptive Sharpness Filter "CASF" With Lunar Lake | Intel | 2025-11-04 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI | Desktop | 2025-10-04 |
| GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default | GNOME | 2025-09-03 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Land Last Minute Additions Ahead Of GNOME 49 | GNOME | 2025-08-31 |
| GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR | GNOME | 2025-08-18 |
| GNOME 49 Beta Ships Many Last Minute Features - Including Greater systemd Reliance | GNOME | 2025-08-15 |
| GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements | GNOME | 2025-08-09 |
| GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen | GNOME | 2025-08-04 |
| GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes | GNOME | 2025-08-03 |
| GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features | GNOME | 2025-07-07 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes | GNOME | 2025-06-29 |
| GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default | GNOME | 2025-06-08 |
| DRM IN_FORMATS_ASYNC Coming For The Intel Driver With Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-05-21 |
| Mutter SDK Merged For GNOME 49 | GNOME | 2025-05-15 |
| Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49 | GNOME | 2025-04-29 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.44 Released With Color-Representation | Wayland | 2025-04-28 |
| GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps | GNOME | 2025-04-28 |
| GNOME Mutter Adds Support For Tablet Pad Relative Dials On Wayland | GNOME | 2025-04-26 |
| Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME | Fedora | 2025-04-23 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol | Wayland | 2025-04-08 |
| Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet | Ubuntu | 2025-04-07 |
| Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025 | Wayland | 2025-03-31 |
| Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management | Google | 2025-03-30 |
| KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1 | KDE | 2025-03-22 |
| GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More | GNOME | 2025-03-19 |
| GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes | GNOME | 2025-03-07 |
| GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering | GNOME | 2025-03-03 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February | Phoronix | 2025-03-01 |
| GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol | GNOME | 2025-03-01 |
| GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support | GNOME | 2025-02-25 |
| Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025 | Google | 2025-02-21 |
| GNOME Mutter Adds Debug Option To Override Multi-GPU Copy Mode | GNOME | 2025-02-20 |
| GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More | GNOME | 2025-02-16 |
| Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48 | GNOME | 2025-02-14 |
| GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility | GNOME | 2025-02-05 |
| GNOME 48 Lands HDR Support Bits At The Last Minute | GNOME | 2025-02-02 |
| GNOME Display Control Utility "gdctl" Merged For GNOME 48 | GNOME | 2025-01-30 |
| GNOME Triple Buffering Now Works With Direct Scanout & VRR | GNOME | 2025-01-27 |
| GNOME 48 Alpha Released With Many New Features | GNOME | 2025-01-24 |
| Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code | GNOME | 2025-01-15 |
| GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too | GNOME | 2025-01-13 |
| GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols | GNOME | 2025-01-09 |
| GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released | GNOME | 2025-01-04 |
| Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops | Wayland | 2024-12-31 |
| Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations | Ubuntu | 2024-12-29 |
| GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes | GNOME | 2024-12-27 |
| KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop | KDE | 2024-12-26 |
| GNOME 48 Mutter To Enjoy Improved Cursor Scaling For Wine Wayland & More | GNOME | 2024-12-13 |
| Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging | Wayland | 2024-11-30 |
| GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes | GNOME | 2024-11-15 |
| GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops | GNOME | 2024-11-12 |
| GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks | GNOME | 2024-10-19 |
| GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance | GNOME | 2024-10-09 |
| Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 | Ubuntu | 2024-10-01 |
| GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More | GNOME | 2024-09-18 |
| GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol | GNOME | 2024-09-14 |
| GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2024-09-08 |
| GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol | GNOME | 2024-09-02 |
| Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers | Ubuntu | 2024-08-20 |
| GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support | GNOME | 2024-08-17 |
| GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters | GNOME | 2024-08-12 |
| More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 | GNOME | 2024-08-07 |
| GNOME Shell 47 Beta Brings Hardware Encoding When Screen Recording & More | GNOME | 2024-08-04 |
| GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option | GNOME | 2024-07-13 |
| GNOME's Wild Week From Leadership Change To More STF-Driven Improvements | GNOME | 2024-07-13 |
| GNOME Mutter Lands Support To Transform sRGB To HDR Outputs | GNOME | 2024-07-09 |
| Fedora Workstation 41 Install Media Will Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME | Fedora | 2024-07-08 |
| Intel Continues Readying Linux For Lunar Lake's New Adaptive Sharpening Filter | Intel | 2024-07-08 |
| GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough | Ubuntu | 2024-07-01 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes | GNOME | 2024-06-30 |
| GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11 | GNOME | 2024-06-29 |
| GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled | GNOME | 2024-06-27 |
| GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7 | GNOME | 2024-06-22 |
| GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47 | GNOME | 2024-06-20 |
| GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling | GNOME | 2024-06-20 |
| NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | Phoronix | 2024-06-01 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu | GNOME | 2024-05-23 |
| Ubuntu Isn't Yet Recommending GNOME's VRR Option | Ubuntu | 2024-04-29 |
| GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration | GNOME | 2024-04-21 |
| GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration | GNOME | 2024-04-17 |
| KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support | KDE | 2024-04-10 |
| Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | X.Org | 2024-04-09 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync | Mesa | 2024-04-02 |
| GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland | GNOME | 2024-03-29 |
| XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin | Wayland | 2024-03-25 |
| New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46 | GNOME | 2024-03-16 |
| GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements | GNOME | 2024-03-09 |
| GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance | GNOME | 2024-03-09 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix | GNOME | 2024-03-03 |
| Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 | GNOME | 2024-03-02 |
| Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46 | GNOME | 2024-03-01 |
| Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling | Mesa | 2024-02-29 |
| GNOME 46 Beta Released - Mutter Supporting Direct Scanout For Cropped/Scaled Surfaces | GNOME | 2024-02-17 |
| New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland | GNOME | 2024-02-16 |
| GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too | GNOME | 2024-02-11 |
| Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | Desktop | 2024-02-10 |
| Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46 | GNOME | 2024-02-10 |
| GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering Now Latency Optimized For Raspberry Pi & X.Org | GNOME | 2024-01-22 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations | Ubuntu | 2024-01-15 |
| GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements | GNOME | 2024-01-12 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released | GNOME | 2024-01-07 |
| GNOME's Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Continues Coming Together | GNOME | 2024-01-06 |
| AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | AMD | 2024-01-01 |
| Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | Phoronix | 2024-01-01 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-12-27 |
| GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" | GNOME | 2023-12-08 |
| Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | Wayland | 2023-11-29 |
| GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption | GNOME | 2023-11-25 |
| Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter | GNOME | 2023-10-26 |
| AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10 | Radeon | 2023-10-12 |
| Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups | GNOME | 2023-10-10 |
| New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor | GNOME | 2023-10-02 |
| Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45 | GNOME | 2023-09-25 |
| GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator | GNOME | 2023-09-20 |
| Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support | Fedora | 2023-09-19 |
| GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption | GNOME | 2023-09-09 |
| GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work | GNOME | 2023-09-06 |
| GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements | GNOME | 2023-08-18 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released | GNOME | 2023-08-08 |
| GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread | GNOME | 2023-08-07 |
| GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder | GNOME | 2023-07-05 |
| What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-06-30 |
| GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming | GNOME | 2023-06-23 |
| GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes | GNOME | 2023-04-26 |
| Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights | Phoronix | 2023-04-02 |
| New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1 | Phoronix | 2023-03-31 |
| GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements | GNOME | 2023-03-22 |
| Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver | Hardware | 2023-03-16 |
| GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2023-03-12 |
