A year and a half ago, shortly after the GNOME 45 release, I opened a pair of Pull Requests to deprecate and remove the X11 Session. A lot has happened since. The GNOME 48 release addressed all the remaining blocking issues, mainly accessibility regressions, but it was too late in the development cycle to drop...
GDM launches other environments too. I do not think it is about GNOME itself.
A big thing missing from Wayland are all the other X11 window managers (hundreds of them) and desktop environments (like XFCE and Cinnamon) that people may want to use.
to be fair, keeping cinnamon on x11 was a major oversight. its the reason i don’t really recommend mint. who knows what other major oversights are in there.
Yeah, but Canonical have stated they want X11 session support (for GDM to be able to launch, not necessarily for GNOME’s X11 session), for 26.04 LTS, for one last LTS.
Something tells me Canonical won’t just kneel to THE ALMIGHTY GNOME TEAM
This aged well lol
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538
I know, right? Quite ironic that their own devs were going on about how unhappy they were with GDM dropping X11 session support.
i think they will still offer a x11 session as fallback, why not. its not much effort for now.
is there anything big still missing from wayland at this point, though? even nvidia is defaulting to wayland these days on ubuntu.
GDM launches other environments too. I do not think it is about GNOME itself.
A big thing missing from Wayland are all the other X11 window managers (hundreds of them) and desktop environments (like XFCE and Cinnamon) that people may want to use.
GDM won’t be able to launch X11 environments after GNOME 50 is my understanding.
to be fair, keeping cinnamon on x11 was a major oversight. its the reason i don’t really recommend mint. who knows what other major oversights are in there.
Yeah, but Canonical have stated they want X11 session support (for GDM to be able to launch, not necessarily for GNOME’s X11 session), for 26.04 LTS, for one last LTS.