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= General =


= Cinnamon =  
== 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.


= GNOME =
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.


== Support for extracting RAR files by default ==
If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit '''/etc/gdm/custom.conf''' to reflect the following:


File Roller, the graphical archive manager for GNOME has been built with support for extracting compressed archives in RAR format in this release.  File Roller uses unar, a free and open source command line multi-format extractor that is part of "The Unarchiver" project for extracting RAR files including encrypted and multi-volume archives. In previous Fedora releases, users have to install the non-free unrar tool from a third party repository for the same purpose.  This is not necessary anymore. 
    [daemon]
    WaylandEnable=false


Fedora still does not have any default support for creating new RAR files since there is no free and open source tool that provides this functionality.  Fedora however includes support for several free and open source compression formats that are generally considered to be more efficient than RAR such as the popular XZ format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz) and it is recommended that you use it to distribute compressed files.  
== 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.  


= KDE Software Compilation =
'''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.


= MATE =
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.
The latest version of a familiar favorite, MATE 1.6 builds on modern functionality to provide a polished, stable desktop environment.


Read more about changes in MATE from the project's release announcement at http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/ .
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:


= Xfce =
    sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput


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


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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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