{
  "id": 19667029,
  "title": "Introducing Polo: a Wayland MATE compositor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/introducing-polo-a-wayland-mate-compositor",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-12T14:32:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1107152/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo , a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment : The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely as possible to how it does on X11, rather than changing the desktop to fit a different compositor. [...] Window management, metacity, workspaces, tiling, XWayland, clipboard and clipman support, multiple monitors, display scaling, hotplugging,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}