Introducing Polo: a Wayland MATE compositor
Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo, a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment: The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely…
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Polo 1.0 launched as a Wayland compositor designed for the MATE Desktop Environment. The project aims to preserve MATE's behavior from its X11 implementation rather than requiring users to adapt to a different compositor's conventions. Kerem Söke developed the compositor to bring MATE into the Wayland ecosystem while maintaining compatibility with the desktop's existing workflows.
The compositor supports core functionality including window management, workspaces, tiling, XWayland compatibility, clipboard operations, multiple monitor configurations, display scaling, hotplugging, screenshots, screen sharing, and session management. All of these features are currently operational according to the release announcement.
Polo includes desktop effects such as fade, zoom, zap, spin, squeemize, magic lamp, desktop cube, expo, and wobbly windows. Söke is actively seeking testers to identify issues, with particular interest in feedback from users running multi-monitor setups.
What happened
Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo, a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment: The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely as possible to how it does on X11, rather than changing the desktop to fit a different compositor. Window management, metacity, workspaces, tiling, XWayland, clipboard and clipman support, multiple monitors, display scaling, hotplugging, screenshots, screen sharing, and session management are all working. I've also added desktop effects: fade, zoom, zap, spin, squeemize, magic lamp, desktop cube, expo, and wobbly windows. Söke is looking for people to test Polo, particularly on multi-monitor setups, and report back with problems.
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- 01 Phoronix first seen Polo Debuts As New Wayland Compositor For MATE Desktop
- 02 Lwn +3.0h Introducing Polo: a Wayland MATE compositor
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