GNOME 46 Alpha Desktop Released for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of the GNOME 46 alpha release include headless remote logins via GDM (GNOME Display Manager), a new terminal emulator app called Prompt, a new offline documentation app called Biblioteca, GTK4 ports for Swell Foop and Settings, headless GNOME Classic session support, built-in support for WebP images, as well as JPEG XL (JXL) as default image format for backgrounds.
The Nautilus (Files) file manager in GNOME 46 will confirm passwords when creating protected ZIP archives, improve discoverability of custom folder icons, allow users to change owner/group and any permissions under admin:///, support detection of copy/move operations of files over the 4GB limit on FAT filesystems, add a detailed date and time format option, and allow Alt+Down to revert more than one Alt+Up.
UbuntuHandbook:
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GNOME 46 Alpha is out! Better Remote Desktop & Flatpak Support
GNOME announced the first alpha of the next 46 release few days ago on last Friday.
Let’s see what’s new in the desktop for next Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
First of all, every Gnome release has a new default wallpaper. This time, it’s a blue background embrace the rounded triangle. And, in this release GNOME backgrounds now favors JPEG-XL as a format. I don’t have any photo images in .jxl format. But it seems that Gnome now supports for setting the file format as background wallpaper.
Linux Magazine:
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GNOME 46 Alpha Available for Public Testing
It seems only yesterday that GNOME 45 was released to further polish the open source desktop environment. On January 12, the team posted an announcement regarding the release of 46.alpha.
This latest release includes a few key features that should excite GNOME users. Headlining that list is the new headless remote login via the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). This new feature is made possible via gnome-remote-desktop, which provides a built-in server that allows users to connect remotely with Pipewire (the subsystem used for handling audio and video streams for Linux).