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| 2025-07-09 |
Wayback nears its first development release |
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People who wish to continue to run X11 desktop sessions on distributions which are transitioning to Wayland-powered desktops recently received some good news. The Alpine Linux team announced they are developing Wayback, a stub which will allow X11 desktops and window managers to run on Wayland sessions. Progress has been rapid and the developers are planning to soon publish a beta of Wayback for people to test. "The main focus of this release is to get to a point where enough is working that users with basic setups and requirements can be reasonably served by Wayback in place of the X.org server, to allow for further testing. It’s already to a point where I am daily driving it. Of course, while the first release is coming soon, the project remains in an experimental state, and the first release will itself be experimental, but we’re making real progress towards a sustainable solution for the X11 problem." Screenshots of Wayback in action can be found in this blog post.
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