Briefing Findings · COSMIC’s Wayland pointer constraints and Mir 2.27’s added
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People are focusing on Wayland improvements landing in active Linux desktop/compositor stacks and related tooling. Specifically, Wayland-specific changes are being integrated for better gaming performance and for increasing Wayland Rust code in Mir.
Also known as wayland compositor·wayland protocol·wayland session·wayland support·wayland display server
People are focusing on Wayland improvements landing in active Linux desktop/compositor stacks and related tooling. Specifically, Wayland-specific changes are being integrated for better gaming performance and for increasing Wayland Rust code in Mir.
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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.
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.
KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support
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Tracking: COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience / Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code
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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