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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by JamesMcMinn on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:09AM (#14003286)
Fedora with Gnome shell on Wayland already handles both 1 and 2, although power managements is about the same as Ubuntu and Wayland comes with its own set of issues.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by jcadam on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:12AM (#14003311)
I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and am quite happy with it.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by alphadevx on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:13AM (#14003322)
Well 1 depends on Wayland actually detecting your external monitor, I normally end up having to drop back to X to get it to detect my secondary 28" 4K monitor :-(
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by loop0 on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:54PM (#14006262)
I couldn't figure out where I can change the different scaling for the external monitor on my fedora 25. My 1080p external monitor just looked huge comparing to my dell xps 13 hidpi display.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by audidude on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:18PM (#14006471)
It requires Wayland features that are used by GNOME 3.24 (so F26).
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by alex_duf on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:12AM (#14003315)
really, there's a native multitouch support for touchpads? do you have more info about that?
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by rhodysurf on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:17AM (#14004665)
Yes there is native 4 finger swipes to change desktop on Wayland. And I wrote an extension to add 3 finger gesture support for an action of your choice. Check it out here: https://github.com/mpiannucci/GnomeExtendedGestures
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by JamesMcMinn on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:19AM (#14004015)
I can't find much information, but things like scrolling, switching work spaces etc. worked out of the box for me when I was testing Fedora 25 a month or so ago.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by alphadevx on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:17AM (#14003359)
Two-finger scrolling works really well on Fedora with Wayland, in fact at some point it appears to have become default behavior (at least on my machine running the latest version).
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by vetinari on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:03AM (#14003852)
Fedora uses libinput. Of course, it is not without issues from those, who would like to tweak every little setting. Libinput is designed to be as automatic and configuration-less as possible.