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GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR).
Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI.
GNOME has also seen some fixes around removing certain assumptions around fixed refresh rates and cursor movement becoming synchronized with the main content updates after performing a VT switch.
Some other interesting but separate work being carried out is by GNOME developer Jelle van der Waa for offering up battery charge controls.
This is to make use of the exposed Linux kernel charge control start/end thresholds for helping to preserve battery health for laptops frequently plugged in 24/7.
There are merge requests pending for UPower as well as the GNOME Control Center for allowing users to easily toggle this option to preserve the battery health for frequently plugged in systems by keeping the charge level in the 50~80% range.
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