GNOME 50 “Tokyo” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

GNOME 50 “Tokyo” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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Marcus Nestor
Apr 6, 2026

The biggest change in the GNOME 50 desktop environment is that the X11 session has been completely removed as GNOME goes Wayland-only from here on. However, running X11 apps is still supported, as well as the ability to run other X11 sessions from the GDM login manager, but not GNOME.

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Marcus Nestor

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