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GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland. The X Window System by default uses the XDM display manager. However, resolving XDM configuration issues typically involves editing a configuration file .
Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. [9] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.
The GNOME Project, i.e. all the people involved with the development of the GNOME desktop environment, is the biggest contributor to GTK, and the GNOME Core Applications as well as the GNOME Games employ the newest GUI widgets from the cutting-edge version of GTK and demonstrates their capabilities.
GNOME runs on Wayland and the X Window System (specifically X.Org). [155] Wayland support was introduced in GNOME 3.10 [19] and deemed "for the majority of users […] a usable day to day experience" by 3.20, [156] at which point Wayland became the default user session. [157] With GNOME 3.24, Wayland compatibility was extended to Nvidia drivers ...
GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.It is part of the GNOME Core Applications, and was introduced in GNOME 3.10. [3]It is the GNOME front-end to the PackageKit, in turn a front-end to several package management systems, which include systems based on both RPM and DEB.
Arch Linux dropped support of GNOME 2 in favor of GNOME 3 in its repositories in April 2011. [28] Fedora Linux uses GNOME Shell by default since release 15, May 2011. [29] CentOS Steam uses the latest version of GNOME Shell; Sabayon Linux uses the latest version of GNOME Shell. openSUSE's GNOME edition has used GNOME Shell since version 12.1 in ...
GNOME Console is a terminal emulator for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It originated as a terminal emulator specifically for the Phosh mobile interface, which needed an adaptive terminal emulator. [11] Since GNOME version 42 it has been a part of the default app set for GNOME, replacing GNOME Terminal. [12] [13]
Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a Wayland compositor for the Linux operating system that is under development by Canonical Ltd. It was planned to replace the currently used X Window System for Ubuntu; [3] [4] [5] however, the plan changed and Mutter was adopted as part of GNOME Shell.