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GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades (linuxiac.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself.

In other words, the GNOME project is finally closing one of the longest chapters in Linux desktop history. With the upcoming GNOME 50 release, scheduled for mid-march 2026, the desktop environment will officially drop support for the native X11 session, making Wayland the sole display system moving forward.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 39 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

For me the X11 era continues for now (until the next version of xfce I expect) and the era of GNOME ended 23 years ago.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Gnome is so bad it hurts. I was reading a blog post by factorios linux dev earlier.

Once Wayland support was implemented, I received a bug report that the window was missing a titlebar and close buttons (called "window decorations") when running on GNOME. Most desktop environments will allow windows to supply their own decorations if they wish but will provide a default implementation on the server side as an alternative. GNOME, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that all clients must provide their own decorations, and if a client does not, they will simply be missing. I disagree with this decision; Factorio does not need to provide decorations on any other platform, nay, on any other desktop environment, but GNOME can (ab)use its popularity to force programs to conform to its idiosyncrasies or be left behind

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I used to love GNOME 2, but now it's unbearable. It looks and it behaves as if it's a toy for kids.

Also, why do apps have buttons in their title bar? It makes no sense.

I'm sad that a good open source project such as GNOME has become so bad.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Become "so bad" is different than "I don't like it"

A lot of people use gnome without any issues. It's stable, it has one of the simplest workflows and it's generally out of the way.

[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

on the contrary, why do so many old apps waste all the space in the title bar just for the title and 3 buttons? it makes no sense.

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