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- By Marius Nestor
- April 4th, 2019
You Can Now Run Android Apps on Your Wayland-Powered Linux Desktop
The applications will run with full 3D acceleration
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- By Marius Nestor
- August 22nd, 2018
After Adopting LXQt, Lubuntu Is Switching to Wayland by Default for Ubuntu 20.10
Lubuntu 18.10 will be the first release with LXQt by default
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- April 23rd, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.13 Desktop Environment Promises Much Better Wayland Support
Will support screencast apps and mice configuration
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- By Marius Nestor
- February 9th, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Daily Builds Now Use Xorg by Default Instead of Wayland
Mesa 17.3.3 graphics stack is now used by default as well
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- By Marius Nestor
- January 26th, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Will Ship with XOrg by Default, Says Canonical
Wayland will be available as well, but not by default
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- November 23rd, 2017
Canonical Needs Your Help to Figure Out a Direction for Ubuntu's Mir/Wayland
Wayland support advanced a lot for Mir lately
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- By Marius Nestor
- October 28th, 2017
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Desktop to Use Wayland by Default, Firewalld and GCC 7
SLE 15 has recently entered closed beta program
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- August 6th, 2017
Ubuntu 17.10 Will Have an Always Visible Dock, Wayland Session by Default
The Ambiance GTK theme and icons will be used by default
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- July 22nd, 2017
The Road to GTK+ 4 Toolkit Continues with Native File Chooser Support for OS X
More Wayland improvements added for tablet devices
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- By Marius Nestor
- July 14th, 2017
Canonical Working Lately on Packaging More GNOME Apps as Snaps for Ubuntu Linux
LibreOffice 5.3.4 Snap was promoted to the stable channel
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- By Marius Nestor
- June 30th, 2017
Canonical Promises Smooth and Easy Unity 7 to GNOME Shell Migration for Users
A GNOME-based Ubuntu session was added in Ubuntu 16.10
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- By Marius Nestor
- June 16th, 2017
Wayland Session Now Installed by Default in Latest KDE Neon Dev Unstable ISOs
The Calamares installer doesn’t run in Wayland yet
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- June 12th, 2017
Ubuntu Devs Begin Testing Wayland on Computers with AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs
MAAS/TestFlinger-based testing infrastructure is in place
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- By Marius Nestor
- June 11th, 2017
KDE Neon Developer Unstable Edition Offers Latest Qt 5.9 Packages for Testing
Users urged to test out Qt 5.9 with Wayland
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 15th, 2017
KDE Plasma 5.10 Enters Beta with Snap & Flatpak Support, Folder View by Default
Improves touch screen support and Wayland integration
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- May 10th, 2017
GTK+ 3.22.13 Introduces More Wayland Improvements, Fixes for Some Memory Leaks
A total of 21 issues were resolved with this stable update
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- April 27th, 2017
Solus Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.9.24 LTS, New Repo Sync Tool Coming Soon
Wayland temporarily disabled for gnome-session, GDM