Xfce legt eine zweite Vorschau des Wayland-Compositors xfwl4 vor. Entwickler Brian Tarricone macht Fortschritte beim Fenster-Management und der Kompatibilität zu X11-Anwendungen.

Wayland 1.26 open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol is now available for download with support for new events, funxtions, and requests, and bug fixes.

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Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the legacy Xorg/X11 display server from their default installations – Ubuntu dropped Xorg support in 25.10. “We worked really hard on Wayland and we got to the point where it feels solid and the experience is almost on par with X11”, Clement Lefebvre wrote in an update, confirming “both X11 and Wayland will be fully supported” in the next release. Whether Wayland will become […]

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A new version of miracle-wm, the Wayland compositor built on Mir with an i3/Sway style tiling window manager, has been released. Developer Matthew Kosarek, a Canonical engineer developing this keyboard-driven UX in his free time, says the new v0.10.0 release sees the plugin system introduced in the April 2026 release “getting better and better everyday”. Plugins can now be used to set a blur effect on individual unfocused windows using a two-pass separable Gaussian blur shader. This helps set a visible cue that might help you focus more. A new nightlight plugin uses an output shader capability to tint the screen […]

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Lange hat's gedauert, doch jetzt ist es soweit. Nach GNOME wird nun auch KDE die X11-Sitzung komplett aus seiner Desktopumgebung Plasma entfernen.

Mir 2.26 compositor is now available for download with initial implementation of the Wayland frontend in the Rust, as well as many other Wayland improvements.

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XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 have been released today to address a total of five security vulnerabilities. Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible.

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Das GNOME-Projekt hat eine Beta für GNOME 50 bereitgestellt. Sie kommt ohne X11-Sesion-Code. Die stabile Veröffentlichung von GNOME 50 ist für den 18. März 2026 geplant.

Die Linux-Distribution KaOS wird dem K im Namen untreu und verbannt KDE ins zweite Glied. KaOS 2026-02 setzt stattdessen auf den Wayland-Compositor Niri und die minimale Shell Noctalia.

JetBrains confirms native Wayland support for IntelliJ IDEs starting in 2026.1. The move from X11 improves scaling and performance for Linux developers.

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Kubuntu 25.10 will not ship with an X11 desktop session on its ISO, following Ubuntu's lead. An X11 Plasma session will remain available for manual install.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 has been released with a huge range of improvements, including an HDR configuration wizard, per-desktop tiling, and more.

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Archinstall 3.0.2 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor, Btrfs improvements, disk partitioning enhancements, and more.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed users can now install the latest LXQt desktop environment with Wayland support from the official repositories. Here's how!

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A quick tutorial on how to switch the primary GPU to NVIDIA on your Linux distro using either KDE Plasma or GNOME desktops on Wayland.

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This article explains how to get Guake drop-down terminal to work properly under Wayland (GNOME). I've tested this using GNOME desktop running on Ubuntu 21.10 with a single monitor, because I currently don't have access to multiple monitors.

Guake is a Python-based drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop which includes split terminal functionality, session save/restore (restores panes and tabs), support for transparency, and many other features. 

It's inspired by the famous Quake console - the terminal stays hidden until you press a key (default is F12). Execute a command, then press the same key again to hide the terminal, going back to your previous task without breaking your workflow. You can also set Guake to automatically hide when it loses focus.

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