News [OMG! Ubuntu] KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops X11 Session, Goes Wayland-Only

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KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only, joining GNOME 50 in removing support for running the desktop session on the legacy X display server. As with GNOME, the change does not mean X11 applications will no longer work in Plasma 6.8 as they will run on Wayland using Xwayland. But a Plasma X11 desktop session will not be provided. “For most users, this will have no immediate impact,” the KDE team say, adding that “the vast majority of our users are already using the Wayland session, it’s the default on most distributions, and some of them have already dropped — or […]

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KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only, joining GNOME 50 in removing support for running the desktop session on the legacy X display server. As with GNOME, the change does not mean X11 applications will no longer work in Plasma 6.8 as they will run on Wayland using Xwayland. But a Plasma X11 desktop session will not be provided. “For most users, this will have no immediate impact,” the KDE team say, adding that “the vast majority of our users are already using the Wayland session, it’s the default on most distributions, and some of them have already dropped — or […]

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