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GNOME Moves On: What the End of the X11 Session Means (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (16 children)

As typical, GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready. I'm glad that I dumped it in 3.0 times.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

They are essentially doing the same as KDE, whose statement was linked in the article.

KDE

For now, the Plasma X11 session remains in maintenance mode. That means critical issues—like login failures or major regressions—will still be addressed. However, minor bugs are unlikely to get fixes unless funded, and new X11-specific features are off the table entirely.

Gnome

First things first: Xorg isn’t being abandoned outright. It remains maintained and is receiving necessary security patches and bug fixes. However, active development has effectively halted, with most of its original contributors now focused on Wayland.

Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gnome and KDE are not doing the same thing.

KDE will continue to offer an X11 session for the time being:

Current status: Plasma’s X11 session continues to be maintained.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

Gnome will disable the X11 session in the next release and then remove the code:

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-removal/

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