The first Beta of Mutter 3.16 is now ready for testing

Feb 23, 2015 09:54 GMT  ·  By

Florian Müllner of the GNOME Project has announced the immediate availability for testing of Mutter 3.16 Beta 1, as part of the recently released GNOME 3.16 Beta 1 desktop environment. Mutter, GNOME’s default window and compositing manager, is in charge of displaying and managing your desktop via OpenGL technologies.

Mutter 3.16 Beta 1 is now capable of exposing MetaMonitorManager to introspection, updates the XDG-Shell implementation to version 5, addresses the “unredirect flash” regression, adds keyboard shortcuts for easy switching to VT8-VT12, and no longer uses seat devices that are not present.

In addition, Mutter can now initialize MetaOutput even if the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) can’t be fetched. Several bugs have also been squashed, so make sure that you read the release notes carefully if you want to know exactly what has been changed in Mutter 3.16 Beta 1.

Last but not least, the Hebrew, Russian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Esperanto languages have been updated on this first Beta release of the upcoming Mutter 3.16 window manager for GNOME 3.16. You can download and test Mutter 3.16 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia, but keep in mind that it’s an unstable release that shouldn’t be deployed on production machines where stability is extremely important.