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GTK 4.16.0 released, now defaults to Vulkan renderer on Wayland(gitlab.gnome.org)

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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Huh but GPUs only support it since like 2016 or 2017. Older ones won’t be able to render GTK4?

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As per https://blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-renderers-for-gtk/ and https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.16-Released :

You can still use either a new OpenGL renderer or the old OpenGL renderer. This can be set with the GSK_RENDERER environment variable (e.g. GSK_RENDERER=gl)

I would assume it will also probably detect unsupported hardware and switch to OpenGL automatically but I don’t have any source to back this up.

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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I hope at least distros will make the switching automated because without it a lot of users will have issues, especially since Ubuntu and Fedora use GNOME by default.

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There’s still OpenGL backends, a newer one that shares the same backend as the Vulkan renderer and the old OpenGL renderer.

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