GNOME 46 to Ship with Experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Support
Yes, you’re reading it right, after more than three years of work by the Mutter (GNOME’s window and composite manager) developers, the variable refresh rate (VRR) support has been merged today and will be available as part of the upcoming GNOME 46 desktop environment series as an experimental feature.
Being experimental, the variable refresh rate (VRR) support won’t be visible to the end user in GNOME 46. Therefore, users will need to enable the variable-refresh-rate experimental feature by running the command below in a terminal emulator followed by a restart of the session (log out and log back in).
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GNOME 46 to Add “Variable Refresh Rate” Configure Option
Variable Refresh Rate, VRR in short, is a feature for TV, monitor, and other displays, allowing to adjust refresh rate on the fly to match the frame rate of the graphics card. Which, is useful for smoother viewing experience, and reducing screen tearing.
GNOME has the feature request for VRR support 3 years ago. It’s finally merged and planned for GNOME 46, which will be released later this month!
According to this request, it’s an experimental feature. User needs to enable it first either via Dconf Editor or gsettings tool via the command...