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GDM on Wayland

The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.

Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering. On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.

If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to reflect the following:

   [daemon]
    WaylandEnable=false

Libinput used for input devices

Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, libinput. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as synaptics, enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices.

'libinput improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper.

Input devices will be configurable through GNOME Settings, KDE System Settings, xfce-settings, or xinput. Some niche features are not available via libinput, but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the xorg-x11-drv-libinput package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed.

Note that xorg-x11-drv-libinput is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install xorg-x11-drv-libinput manually by doing:

   sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput

To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to man libinput or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html

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-==Xfce==
+== GDM on Wayland ==
+The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg.  While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.
-Fedora 15 sees the introduction of Xfce 4.8. This new release remains true to Xfce's goal of providing a fast, lightweight yet user-friendly desktop environment, while adding a range of new features and incremental improvements:
+Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering.  On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.
-* '''Remote share browsing''': Thunar, Xfce's file manager, now has support for GVFS, allowing easy remote access to files and folders on Windows shares and FTP, Webdav and SSH servers;
+If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit '''/etc/gdm/custom.conf''' to reflect the following:
-* '''New Xfce Panel''' with improved positioning and size handling, alpha transparency, a new item editor and drag'n'drop launcher creation;
-* '''New Panel plugins''' such as '''window buttons''', which merges the features of the icon box and the tasklist into a single configurable plugin, and '''directory menu''', allowing quick browsing of a folder's tree structure;
-* '''Easy application menu editing''' with any Freedesktop-compliant menu editor, such as Alacarte;
-* '''Improved multihead display configuration''' including a quick setup dialog;
-* '''Improved keyboard layout selection''' - wave goodbye to cryptic langauge/variant codes, and select the keyboard layout for your language in your language!
-* And, in the venerable tradition of Xfce releases, a new clock mode - '''fuzzy clock mode!'''
-== GNOME ==
+    [daemon]
+     WaylandEnable=false
-Fedora 15 includes GNOME 3. It brings the first major overhaul of the GNOME user experience in 10 years.
+== Libinput used for input devices ==
+Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, '''libinput'''.  The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as '''synaptics''', enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices.
-Advanced user can install ''gnome-tweak-tool'' to customize desktop environment.
+'''libinput'' improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons.  The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' wrapper.
-== KDE ==
+Input devices will be configurable through '''GNOME Settings''', '''KDE System Settings''', '''xfce-settings''', or '''xinput'''.  Some niche features are not available via '''libinput''', but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed.
-This release features KDE 4.6.
+Note that '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' manually by doing:
-KDE 4.6 is the latest release of KDE 4. There are many enhancements and new features.
+    sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput
-== Sugar ==
-Sugar has been updated to the latest version 0.92 in Fedora 15. This
-version provides major usability improvements for the first login
-screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support
-for 3G networks.
+To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to `man libinput` or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html
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