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EX-11: Prepping for Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!"
That talk was 15 years ago!
Nothing in software is never truly "done", but as announced previously we are finally at a point where we're ready to retire the X11 and put all our focus on the future.
As of today, the Plasma X11 session you can log into has been officially removed, and we will start a mass cleanup of X11-specific code soon.
When does it take effect?
This change will be included in Plasma 6.8, which will be released in around five months.
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KDE Plasma waves goodbye to X11 for Plasma 6.8 | GamingOnLinux
KDE developer David Edmundson has blogged about the upcoming purge of X11, as KDE Plasma moves to a Wayland-only world. As previously announced last year, KDE Plasma is doing away with the X11 session as the Linux world moves on fully towards Wayland and now Edmundson has a new blog post up to talk a little about moving forward.
Edmundson mentions in the post that "As of today, the Plasma X11 session you can log into has been officially removed, and we will start a mass cleanup of X11-specific code soon". This change will arrive in Plasma 6.8 so that's when it will affect end-users who will wave goodbye to X11 where only Wayland will be a session login option.
For Plasma 6.8 they said "all X11-specific code paths in Plasma for Plasma Shell, System Settings, and device configuration will be gone".
Of course with the likes of XWayland, most apps will continue working as normal. Wayland the protocol and Plasma support for Wayland is working very nicely nowadays, I've been running it for quite some time now without problems gaming and in general day-to-day work. Nice and smooth.