{"id":49700,"date":"2025-09-18T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49700"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:30:30","slug":"gnome-49-officially-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/gnome-49-officially-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 49 Officially Released with New Video Player & Document Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GNOME developer team finally announced the 49 release of this popular Linux Desktop environment!<\/b><\/p>\n

If everything goes well, GNOME 49 will be the default desktop for Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc Linux distributions.<\/p>\n

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The new desktop release introduced Showtime<\/b> to replace Totem as the default video player, and Papers<\/b> to replace Evince as the default document viewer.<\/p>\n

Both use the GTK4 plus LibAdwaita libraries for the modern user interfaces with native look and touch friendly experience in today’s GNOME desktop.<\/p>\n

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Showtime video player<\/p><\/div>\n

Gnome on Xorg<\/b> (or Ubuntu on Xorg) is finally removed in the release, meaning there’s no longer Xorg\/X11 session but only Wayland for GNOME. Though, the GDM login screen still can load other Xorg sessions, e.g., XFCE and Cinnamon.<\/p>\n

It as well features new accessibility menu in login screen, with Quick Settings style buttons to toggle access to screen keyboard, screen reader, etc tools.<\/p>\n

And, user can now control music playback and power-off\/restart (though not enabled by default) from the lock screen.<\/p>\n

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GNOME 49 also improved Remote Desktop support, by adding multi-touch input<\/em> support for client device with touch-screen, relative mouse input<\/em> for better 3D app or gaming experience, and ability to have additional virtual monitors<\/em> even when there aren\u2019t additional displays physically present.<\/p>\n

The image loading and the background wallpaper now are handled by the Glycin library<\/a>, which is sandboxed to help prevent security exploits.<\/p>\n

And, the release now supports changing the display brightness in the Quick Settings when HDR is enabled. While, these new HDR brightness controls support external displays, and allow multiple displays to be adjusted at the same time.<\/p>\n

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There are also many improvements to the Gnome Weather, Gnome Maps, Gnome Calendar apps, as well as following changes:<\/p>\n