Canonical plans to drop the Xserver Xorg in Ubuntu Desktop 25.10, so that the login manager and Gnome desktop will only run in the more modern Wayland mode. The distributor did not provide any ...

Ariadne Conill has presented the experimental Xorg compatibility layer Wayback. This enables Linux distributions to completely abandon the Xorg server without taking the ground out from under the feet ...

Canonical's Didier Roche has confirmed that the Wayland display server will become the default, replacing Xorg, in Ubuntu 17.10 due for release in October. Xorg will still be installed too.

For over 10 years, a display server protocol called Wayland has been in development. Its goal is to offer Linux-based systems a streamlined alternative to the widely adopted X Window System. Windowing ...