Question to help me increase my understanding on what’s going on in the Linux desktop stack. I’ve heard Gnome doesn’t support VRR while KDE does.

Why does this matter, isn’t Wayland or X11 the one that would ultimately need to support VRR? Basically when running a game that I want to use VRR with, why does it matter what my desktop environment is doing?

  • RustmilianEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    Resources :

    KDE Landing Page, Bugs & Improvement Idea Guidelines, Contact Help, KDE Forum, Debugging How To If Needed and Run the Below Command for Useful Information :
    qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

    Use KDE Neon Unstable (Plasma 6) in a Live Environment.

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