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For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wouldnt Xfce have to rebrand though? lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Xfce4 is a name not a acronym. It used to be back in the day but it now uses GTK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yes, it is a name that is literally pronounced like "X face"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I pronounce it x f c e