Wayland starting to work

Posted Feb 3, 2026 22:41 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by jmalcolm
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> In contrast, the Xlibre project (not endorsing it) intends to keep evolving the Xorg codebase with the view that X11 remains the future of the Linux desktop. If evolving X11 means breaking things, they will do so.

Except for the minor point that not "breaking things" is the entire point of sticking with X11 in the first place.

If Xlibre (or Phoenix) introduces something genuinely "new" then they have to get application, toolkit, driver writers, *and* other Xserver [1] buy-in for it to be of any real use... which is going to be a very tall order these days.

[1] Notably including Xorg, which thanks to XWayland is where most desktop users are (or soon will be) found these days.