GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release
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GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release

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Marcus Nestor
Feb 4, 2026

The biggest change of the upcoming GNOME 50 desktop environment series is the removal of X11 support in various core components, which was initially planned for the GNOME 49 release, as GNOME is going Wayland-only from here on, except for the ability to launch other X11 desktop sessions with a per-user X server.
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Marcus Nestor

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