orowith2os/gnome-vrr

( forked from kylegospo/gnome-vrr )

Project ID: 93758

Description

Provides Mutter & GNOME Control Center with Dor Askayo's Wayland VRR MR applied.

Now compatible with Fedora 38.

Use at your own risk, this MR is in testing. Please avoid commenting in the GNOME Gitlab unless you're absolutely certain you've found an issue with the MR.

Installation Instructions

Needed Environment Variable

As of Fedora 38 the following environment variable is required:

MUTTER_DEBUG_FORCE_KMS_MODE=simple

This can be be added to /etc/profile or to /etc/environment

Additionally, if you've previously installed this on Fedora 37, be sure to re-run the below installation commands due to an additional package being added for 38.

Installation (Workstation)

Firstly add the Copr repository to your system:

sudo dnf copr enable kylegospo/gnome-vrr

After adding the repository, update your mutter, gnome-control-center, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland packages:

sudo dnf update --refresh

Updates

If you wish to avoid upstream changes to mutter overwriting this package until this repository is updated, you can optionally force this repository to have a higher priority by doing:

sudo dnf config-manager --save --setopt="copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:kylegospo:gnome-vrr.priority=1"

Reverting

If you wish to go back to stock, first disable the Copr repo:

sudo dnf copr disable kylegospo/gnome-vrr

Then roll back the packages that were updated with:

sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh

Installation (Silverblue)

To use this repo on Silverblue add the repo by executing:

sudo wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kylegospo/gnome-vrr/repo/fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora)/kylegospo-gnome-vrr-fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora).repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_kylegospo-gnome-vrr.repo

And install the packages as overrides by executing:

rpm-ostree override replace --experimental --from repo=copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:kylegospo:gnome-vrr mutter gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-filesystem xorg-x11-server-Xwayland

Reverting

If you wish to go back to stock, first remove the Copr repo:

sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_kylegospo-gnome-vrr.repo

Then reset the packages that were overridden with:

rpm-ostree override reset mutter gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-filesystem xorg-x11-server-Xwayland

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release Architectures Repo Download
Fedora 38 x86_64 (22)* Fedora 38 (0 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.