KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Native X11 for Exclusive Wayland Shift
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KDE Plasma 6.8 to Drop X11 Support, Goes All-In on Wayland
A growing number of Linux desktop environments (DEs) are moving towards Wayland, the modern display protocol designed to replace the aging X11 window system. X11 has been the foundation of Linux graphical interfaces for over three decades now, but it carries significant technical debt and security limitations that Wayland aims to address.Projects like Fedora, GNOME, and KDE have been leading the charge on this by being among the first ones to ad…
KDE Plasma Linux DE Drops X11 Support in 6.8 Release
KDE Plasma 6.5 recently launched, bringing with it a host of fixes and quality of life updates, along with some visual tweaks to make the desktop experience feel more polished. Now, however, KDE has officially announced that it will officially stop supporting the X11 session as of the release of KDE Plasma 6.8, which is slated to launch sometime in late 2027 or 2028. KDE has confirmed that the X11 session will still be supported until 2027. Anyo…
At the beginning of 2027, and a little more than a year after Gnome, KDE also wants to remove support for X11 and now fully rely on Wayland.
It's a silent, but historic revolution. After almost thirty years of cohabitation, KDE has just announced that Plasma 6.8 will definitely abandon the X11 session to become fully Wayland-native. A shift that will be a milestone in the history of Linux desktop, comparable to the transition from BIOS to UEFI or Flash extinction. KDE confirmed it in an article of [...] The KDE article turns the page: Plasma 6.8 will be 100% Wayland — and signs the d…
The plasma team announces the beginning of a new era: After almost three decades of running KDE desktop environments under X11, the future version KDE Plasma 6.8 will only support Wayland. This means that support for X11 applications will be completely transferred to Xwayland and the plasma X11 session will no longer be included, the team announces. KDE looks at this, but
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