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An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal. The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it’s scheduled for removal (blogs.gnome.org)
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[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We went ahead and disabled the X11 session by default and from now on it needs to be explicitly enabled when building the affected modules. (gnome-session, GDM, mutter/gnome-shell).

Aside from a simple flag change and a recompile before Canonical adds the packages to their repo, it doesn't sound like this will affect Ubuntu at all. They probably already do this anyway to add their own little patches.

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

GNOME 50 is when Canonical will truly need to either move to Wayland or do something else.

Seems fairly reasonable of a timeline from the GNOME team, IMO.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Something tells me Canonical won't just kneel to THE ALMIGHTY GNOME TEAM

[–] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I know, right? Quite ironic that their own devs were going on about how unhappy they were with GDM dropping X11 session support.