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Recent coverage focuses on Wayland progress across multiple projects: Ubuntu is backporting niri’s scrollable tiling Wayland compositor and toolchain, while COSMIC improves gaming with Wayland pointer constraints and Mir adds more Wayland-focused Rust code. Overall, it’s a theme of polishing compositor/tooling behavior for practical desktop and gaming use.

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Key Takeaway Wayland ecosystem components—niri, COSMIC, and Mir—are actively adding compositor features and input/implementation improvements.
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Wayland ecosystem components—niri, COSMIC, and Mir—are actively adding compositor features and input/implementation improvements.

Recent coverage focuses on Wayland progress across multiple projects: Ubuntu is backporting niri’s scrollable tiling Wayland compositor and toolchain, while COSMIC improves gaming with Wayland pointer constraints and Mir adds more Wayland-focused Rust code. Overall, it’s a theme of polishing compositor/tooling behavior for practical desktop and gaming use.

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Top 2 signals · Wayland ecosystem components—niri, COSMIC, and Mir—are
Phoronix · 16h ago
COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience
Phoronix · 2d ago
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

Briefing Findings · Wayland ecosystem components—niri, COSMIC, and Mir—are

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Project component niri backport includes compositor + toolchain from source
COSMIC feature Implements Wayland pointer constraints for a better gaming experience

What to Watch

  • Watch Ubuntu 22.04 LTS updates for the niri compositor + toolchain backport rollout. r/linux
  • Follow COSMIC release notes or changelogs for continued Wayland input/pointer-constraint improvements. Phoronix

What Changed

  • Backported niri (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor) to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — compositor + toolchain from source r/linux
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COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn't yet contain the new 'Frosted Glass' option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements.

16h ago
phoronix.com

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm.

2d ago
phoronix.com

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support

2d ago

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What about X11-only apps and remote desktop?

The biggest downside to X11 disappearing is that a lot of remote desktop apps and headless sessions use it. VNC servers, X11 forwarding over SSH, and XRDP all rely on it, and there's no perfect equivalent for them in Wayland. But even that space is slowly shifting over to Wayland, with tools like GNOME Remote Desktop gaining traction and RDP support growing. It's not as straightforward as X11 was, but it's getting there. Most users on KDE Plasma probably aren't going to be doing serious headless remote session work through it anyway, and those who are should be able to find viable alternatives

KDE is finally killing X11, and I'm not as sad as I thought I'd be
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