With Wayland becoming the predominant foundation for GUIs, may I ask the Xubuntu Team to outline, in User-oriented language, what strategy is being pursued to
integrate with X-Wayland, or
ensure the “business-continuity” (for End-User Desktop as well) of a well-oiled and functioning X-Window system platform going forward ?
Xorg isn’t disappearing from the archives. It’s just being demoted from main to universe. This will have no effect on Xubuntu.
Thank you, Erich, for pointing that out. However, that doesn’t really address my question.
Well, since Xubuntu uses Xfce, then it’s sometimes best to go to the source.
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Am I understanding correctly, that x11 will still be the main alternative in the next version, Xubuntu 26.04 LTS?
I am eager to find out the same, as I rely heavely on X11 for some of my critical apps that are not working under Wayland. Thank you for the input.
It is all there in the link to the “Source” which is the Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap.
For Xfce 4.20, the plan was to add preliminary support to Wayland to core components without losing X11 support.
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS will use Xfce 4.20.
Under Long Term Goals there is this
It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a complete Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at all).
The way things worked out with Ubuntu we first got a Wayland compositor with X11 still being available. And then Wayland became the default. And then X11 was removed. I would not be surprised if a similar pattern happens with Xubuntu’s move from X11 to a Wayland compositor. Everything depends on the progress made by the Xfce development team. Which cannot be foreseen or predicted.
Regards