Fedora 41 Drops the GNOME Xorg Sessions
The Fedora Workstation Working Group has decided to stop installing the GNOME Xorg sessions by default, starting with Fedora 41. This decision aims to encourage users to switch to Wayland while ensuring that existing installations are not broken.
Following the move to completely remove X11 from Plasma 6 in Fedora 40, Fedora 41, set for release at the end of the year, will also adopt Wayland as the default for its GNOME desktop environment. This change aligns with Fedora’s overall direction toward using Wayland.
Regarding this, the GNOME classic session, which includes both Wayland and Xorg sessions, will be split to maintain the Classic session as a default installation. The change, initially proposed for Fedora 40, was deemed too late for implementation and will be formally introduced in Fedora 41 as a system-wide change.
Linuxiac:
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Fedora 41 Drops the GNOME Xorg Sessions
The Fedora Workstation Working Group has decided to stop installing the GNOME Xorg sessions by default, starting with Fedora 41. This decision aims to encourage users to switch to Wayland while ensuring that existing installations are not broken.
In other words, following the move to remove X11 from Plasma 6 in Fedora 40, Fedora 41, set for release at the end of the year, will also drop the option to use the Xorg session from the login screen. This change aligns with Fedora’s overall direction toward using Wayland.
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Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
While defaulting to Wayland since version 25 of Fedora Workstation (GNOME), and Fedora version 34 for the KDE Plasma Desktop spin, this Linux distribution intends to completely ditch X.Org session as fallback for GNOME on release 41.
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Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org
The Fedora development team is discussing dropping the GNOME on X11 session in Fedora 41, meaning that the flagship edition will be Wayland-only.
The move comes from ongoing online discussions and is planned for Fedora 41, which is the release after next, expected in about seven months' time. It is still under discussion: nothing is set in stone yet, but it's looking likely.
This change has been coming for a while – we reported on the proposal in October last year. It's also in line with the stated direction of Fedora's parent and primary sponsor Red Hat, which announced last year that RHEL 10 would be Wayland-only.