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Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it?

Hi there, with the Debian update from 11 to 12 came the switch from Gnome 3 to 4. This causes a huge performance problem in the "Activities" action I need to perform literally all the time, to switch between application windows. In the old system, this was very snappy, in the new system already four or five windows mean the computer practically freezes for a few hundred milliseconds including a frozen mouse pointer. It feels very awful. I would estimate the old version was at least four to eight times faster.

I'm on an HP laptop with Intel onboard graphics. I didn't change anything with the Debian 11 to 12 update. Any help fixing this issue is appreciated. Ideally the overview would come immediately and the windows would be refreshed asynchronously, because now, if I have like ten PDFs open, it's completely unusable. I would prefer not to switch window manager, just because Gnome 4 assumes everyone got a ten times faster machine than five years ago. I am sure this a bug somewhere.

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 21 to July 28.

It’s great to see people face to face after a long time. Kicked off the first day with an ADHD trip of a talk. Rather than putting links in my slides, where nobody has the chance of actually follow, I’ve assembled them here. Enjoy!

Hi there. Another Gnome 3x -> 4x question. While I appreciate that Nautilus finally allows me to sort search results, it seems it now forgets the way I sort the columns, and instead always resorts to alphabetical sorting. So every damn time I open Downloads, which is like a hundred times a day, I have to press twice on 'Modified' and then find the tiny scrollbar to go up to the top again. So annoying. Tell me I'm missing something, and I can make it remember I want a particular sorting order for a particular directory?

Hi there. I've got two types of applications after updating Debian from 11 to 12, and consequently moving from Gnome 3 to Gnome 4. Those that seem fine and show the expected mouse point (system, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice etc.):

nice-cursor

and others that now show a very ugly "fat penguin" kind of cursor, which also moves quite sluggishly (Mixxx, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD):

ugly-cursor

I looked threw "Tweaks" but didn't notice any particular setting that might affect this. Any idea how I can make those applications use a descent mouse cursor?

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.

It turns out that one the #performance issues I discovered some days ago in #GNOME #Web (where resources are not freed when closing a browser window) was caused by… a speed optimization previously made in the #Epiphany #opensource #Linux #browser … nearly 20 years ago 👀 No surprise then that it wasn't a #WebKitGTK issue, it even predates #WebKit ! 😂 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2130

Multi windows/sessions support landed in Workbench. 🛠️ You'll be able to consult Library demos while working on your prototype. This is also a requirement for future on-disk folder projects support in Workbench. Following up @bilelmoussaoui footsteps, here is a totally unnecessary screenshot of all Library demos open. https://apps.gnome.org/app/re.sonny.Workbench/

The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare metal environment, for licensing purposes (you can only virtualise macOS on an Apple machine running macOS), so CI pipelines compete for resources and tend to clobber each other unless the dependencies are shared or are completely isolated and never ins...

Ever look at Nautilus' sidebar and think there are a few too many entries? GNOME devs have. They're proposing to prune the number of sidebar location

A quick tutorial on how to install the alpha or beta development versions of the GNOME desktop environment on the Arch Linux distribution.

GNOME-based Phosh 0.29 mobile UI for Linux-powered phones and tablets is now available with various new features and improvements.

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 30 to July 07.

It's about time for the yearly (Northern Hemisphere) Summer Maps blog post. 😎 Since the release of 44.0 in March, aside from some fixes (l...

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 16 to June 23.

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Seems like complaints about performance in games on gnome Wayland have led constructively to a major improvement. I love to see open source deliver like this.