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GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling

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Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland.

José Expósito authored the Wayland DRM lease protocol support for Mutter based on earlier work by Jonas Ådahl that was carried out back in 2022.

Wayland's wp_drm_lease_device_v1 protocol allows Wayland compositors as the DRM masters to lease DRM resources to Wayland clients. The main focus on all of this DRM leasing support for Linux the past few years has been on batter handling of VR headsets on Linux.

See [1]this merge request for those interested in the Wayland DRM lease support now merged for GNOME. GNOME 47 with this work and many other enhancements is due out in mid-September.



[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3746


Britoid

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"What surprises you most about mankind?"

God answered:

"That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long
to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose
their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the
future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present
nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if
they had never lived."
-- Jim Brown, published by Reata Strickland as
An Interview with God ISBN 0743229576. (Variation of it was misattributed
to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama )