Search

Chapter 40. Desktop

download PDF

Wayland available as a Technology Preview

The Wayland display server protocol is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a Technology Preview with the dependent packages required to enable Wayland support in GNOME, which supports fractional scaling. Wayland uses the libinput library as its input driver.
The following features are currently unavailable or do not work correctly:
  • Multiple GPU support is not possible at this time.
  • The NVIDIA binary driver does not work under Wayland.
  • The xrandr utility does not work under Wayland due to its different approach to handling, resolutions, rotations, and layout.
  • Screen recording, remote desktop, and accessibility do not always work correctly under Wayland.
  • No clipboard manager is available.
  • It is currently impossible to restart GNOME Shell under Wayland.
  • Wayland ignores keyboard grabs issued by X11 applications, such as virtual machines viewers. (BZ#1481411)

Fractional Scaling available as a Technology Preview

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, GNOME provides, as a Technology Preview, fractional scaling to address problems with monitors whose DPI lies in the middle between lo (scale 1) and hi (scale 2).
Due to technical limitations, fractional scaling is available only on Wayland. (BZ#1481395)
Red Hat logoGithubRedditYoutubeTwitter

Learn

Try, buy, & sell

Communities

About Red Hat Documentation

We help Red Hat users innovate and achieve their goals with our products and services with content they can trust.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. For more details, see the Red Hat Blog.

About Red Hat

We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.

© 2024 Red Hat, Inc.