GNOME Shell 3.16.1 Adds Workaround for Background Corruption with the Nvidia Driver | Linux Today

GNOME Shell 3.16.1 Adds Workaround for Background Corruption with the Nvidia Driver

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Marius Nestor
Apr 14, 2015

The first maintenance release of GNOME Shell 3.16 introduces a workaround for the background corruption with the proprietary Nvidia video driver. In addition, GNOME Shell 3.16.1 makes the on-screen keyboard to work for shell chrome on the Wayland port and implements the reexec_self() function for the FreeBSD operating system.

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Marius Nestor

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