GNOME 50 to Drop X11 Support, Completing Migration to Wayland
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Summary
GNOME 50, scheduled for release in mid-March 2026, will completely remove X11 code from both Mutter (GNOME's window manager/compositor) and GNOME Shell, marking the end of X11 support in the GNOME desktop environment. This completes a long migration to Wayland that began in 2016 when Wayland became the default session. The removal follows the merging of two pull requests that eliminated X11 code from the codebase, though compatibility needs will still be handled through XWayland.
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That changed with the recent merging of two PRs, 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 n
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