Wayland starting to work

Posted Feb 13, 2026 8:40 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by jmalcolm
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> Xwayland is not that hard to maintain as long as X11 stops evolving which is of course why the Wayland devs do not want X11 to evolve.

It might not be your intention, but this can be read as "Wayland devs are trying to prevent X11 from evolving", which isn't true. They're simply not interested in evolving X themselves. Those who are would need to step up and do it.

> And the only way to keep Xwayland stable is to keep Xorg stable too (to stop adding features to it)

That's not true. Features can be added to Xorg without hurting Xwayland (and vice versa).

> So, yes, Wayback should provide a way to continue using X11 window managers for a very long time. But it also means almost by definition the complete stagnation of X11.

I don't agree that's a valid conclusion.