Subj : Graham: about Plasmas X11 session
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Jun 23 2025 19:45:07

Graham: about Plasmas X11 session

Date:
Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:35:54 +0000

Description:
KDE contributor Nate Graham recently wrote about the KDE Project's plans for 
Plasma's X11 session. He notes that
the project will continue to ensure that Plasma " continues to
compile and deploy on X11 " and isn't horribly broken. Major
regressions will probably be fixed, eventually, but the writing is on
the wall: X11's upstream development has dropped off significantly in recent
years, and X11 isn't able to perform up to the standards of what
people expect today with respect to HDR, 10 bits-per-color monitors,
other fancy monitor features, multi-monitor setups (especially with
mixed DPIs or refresh rates), multi-GPU setups, screen tearing,
security, crash robustness, input handling, and more. As for when Plasma will 
drop support for X11? There's currently no
firm timeline for this, and I certainly don't expect it to happen in
the next year, or even the next two years. But that's just a guess; it
depends on how quickly we implement everything on 
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues . Our
plan is to handle everything on that page such that even the most
hardcore X11 user doesn't notice anything missing when they move to
Wayland.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1026552/


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