GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence
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GNOME Wayland + systemd Focus)
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This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform.
As covered already, [1]GNOME 49 is going to disable X11 support by default . This is ahead of GNOME 50 likely removing its X11 session support entirely. XWayland support for X11 client compatibility will continue but GNOME is going to stop supporting the classic X11 session in favor of going Wayland-only.'
Another notable change recently laid out is stronger dependencies on systemd within the G NOME desktop. This will make it harder to run GNOME on operating systems without systemd.
Also notable is the GNOME Image Viewer switching to Glycin as GNOME's new image loading library. The Glycin image loading library is written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety.
More details on the big and smaller GNOME changes this week via [2]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alpha-0-Packages
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-204/
As covered already, [1]GNOME 49 is going to disable X11 support by default . This is ahead of GNOME 50 likely removing its X11 session support entirely. XWayland support for X11 client compatibility will continue but GNOME is going to stop supporting the classic X11 session in favor of going Wayland-only.'
Another notable change recently laid out is stronger dependencies on systemd within the G NOME desktop. This will make it harder to run GNOME on operating systems without systemd.
Also notable is the GNOME Image Viewer switching to Glycin as GNOME's new image loading library. The Glycin image loading library is written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety.
More details on the big and smaller GNOME changes this week via [2]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alpha-0-Packages
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-204/
MorrisS.