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GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10.1 Fixes Memory Leaks
**The GNOME developers announced a few days ago that the first maintenance release of the stable GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10 package, a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them, is available for download. **
GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10.1 is distributed as part of the recently released GNOME 3.10.1 desktop environment, and includes several memory leak fixes and small cleanups. Below is a detailed list with all the changes implemented in this stable release of GNOME Settings Daemon:
Housekeeping:
- The cache directories are no longer scanned if not needed;
Keyboard:
- The XKB group switching option is no longer set if not needed;
Media-keys:
- A gsettings key is now used for the maximum length of a screencast;
Mouse:
- Edge scrolling is now automatically enabled if two-finger scroll is not available;
Power:
- A test case has been added as no warning was provided on startup;
- Notifications are now displayed on critical battery state;
- The "keyboard Backlight is not available" warning has been fixed;
- A mouse will no longer appear as the status icon;
Updates:
- Added a 'Not Now' button to the distribution upgrade notification;
- Multiple notifications are no longer displayed when updates are available;
- It now requires PackageKit 0.8.1 or higher in order to avoid complexity;
Wacom:
- A couple of crashes have been fixed;
- Default area ordering has been fixed;
- A failure to get area with the cursor device has been fixed;
- Resetting the tablet area to default has been implemented;
- OSD has been fixed;
- Tablet PC setting has been removed as there's no UI (User Interface) for it;
XRandR:
- The temporary configurations generated by the FN+F7 keyboard shortcut or rotate buttons are no longer saved.
More details about this release can be found in the official raw changelog.
- Download GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10.1 tar.xz[sources] [1.60 MB]
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