All articles tagged with #wayland
Electron now ships with improved Wayland support on Linux, aligning with Chromium defaults and reducing reliance on XWayland. Upstream work on Chromium/CEF, plus dedicated Electron CI for Wayland, helps ensure compatibility, though some APIs differ from X11. Benefits include better color, HDR, and hardware-accelerated rendering, while features like client-side decorations remain areas for ongoing work.
CachyOS March 2026 refresh brings Wayland to CachyOS Handheld Edition (replacing X11), updates the installer with animated previews and JPEG-XL support, switches Gamescope session to a cachyos fork with firmware updates for Steam Deck and Legion Go, replaces SDDM with Plasma Login Manager, and removes Bcachefs from the installer due to kernel module dependencies; the update also adds a Winboat option in the Welcome screen and is available as a new ISO from CachyOS.org.
System76 outlines COSMIC Epoch 2 and Epoch 3 features for its Rust-based desktop, including a Vulkan renderer for the COSMIC Wayland compositor to enable HDR/night light, performance optimizations, window effects, and gaming improvements in Epoch 2, followed by Epoch 3 additions like session restoration, per-app volume controls, SVG cursors, LSP-powered COSMIC Edit, and more—timelines for release are not provided.
Emergency crews responded to a suspected norovirus outbreak at The Residence at Paine Estate in Wayland, MA, with five people transported to local hospitals; town officials say public health staff are coordinating with the facility, other Wayland assisted livings have been notified, EMS staffing has been increased, and mutual aid has been requested, with no further details released.
CachyOS's first 2026 ISO switches to Wayland by default and uses KDE Plasma Login Manager, replaces SDDM, and makes Limine the default bootloader. The release also enables Btrfs compression level 1, adds nouveau-fw for older NVIDIA GPUs to support VA-API, and includes fixes for Framework laptops with AMD Zen 5, alongside GNOME package handling improvements.
Wine 11.0 stable release brings NTSYNC support on recent Linux kernels, a stable WoW64 mode, exclusive fullscreen support, improved Wine Wayland driver support, Vulkan improvements, and broader gaming enhancements to run Windows software on Linux and bolster Proton/Steam Play.
Budgie 10.10 has been officially released, marking the project's transition from X11 to Wayland after over a decade, and is now available for download on GitHub.
A recent update to XWayland has fixed an issue where incorrect pointer coordinates were sent to X11 clients during pointer enter events, improving input accuracy especially in complex window scenarios.
Hyprland 0.53, the latest update to the Wayland compositor, introduces a new launcher script with crash recovery and safe mode support, a welcome app, and various improvements including overhauled window rules, color management, HDR fixes, and new customization options.
KDE Plasma's transition to a Wayland-only desktop environment is nearing completion, with significant progress made in 2025 on features like HDR support, color management, and protocol implementations, aiming for a full switch by early 2027, while also introducing various UI enhancements.
Fedora Linux continued to lead upstream Linux innovations in 2025 with successful releases like Fedora 42 and 43, focusing on Wayland-only GNOME, performance improvements, and new features, while planning for Fedora 44 with enhancements like replacing kernel console with KMSCON and dropping i686 support.
QNX has released a self-hosted developer desktop environment for QNX 8.0, featuring a Wayland + Xfce desktop, aimed at simplifying development and avoiding cross-compilation, available as a virtual machine for non-commercial use, with plans for native Raspberry Pi support.
Phoenix is an in-development X Server written from scratch in Zig, aiming to be a modern, secure, and extendable alternative to X.Org, with support for modern graphics technologies and Wayland compatibility.
The article discusses the development of Phoenix, a modern X server written in Zig, which aims to be a 'clean slate' alternative to traditional X11, incorporating modern design choices similar to Wayland but with a focus on compatibility and simplicity. It highlights the limitations of Wayland, the challenges with X11, and the potential benefits of Phoenix as a more maintainable and feature-rich display server, while also touching on the ongoing debates within the Linux community about the future of window systems.
Wayback 0.3, an open-source X11 compatibility layer using Wayland, has been released with updates and bug fixes, and is set to be used by default on Alpine Linux next year, with future plans to improve its functionality in 2026.