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GNOME re-enables X11 support temporarily |
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The GNOME project has been planning for some time to phase out X11 support from its desktop environment. It looked like X11 support would be disabled by default during the GNOME 49 development cycle this year, but that change has been reverted. Some GNOME members pointed out that disabling X11 support entirely would also mean cutting off access to other desktop environments from the GNOME login screen. It's FOSS reports: " Adrian Vovk, a member of the GNOME Release Team, has merged a change that re-enables X11 session support in GDM for the GNOME 49 release candidate. The problem came down to the x11-support switch. Flipping it off did not just kill old bits like XDMCP; it also stopped GDM from even looking at /usr/share/xsessions, which meant no X11 desktops would show up on the login screen." Adrian Vovk's change request offers details on the situation.
The reprieve for X11 support will be temporary and will likely disappear in the next GNOME development cycle once the developers work out how to drop X11 without also cutting off access to other desktop environments on the machine.
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