[Development] CI testing on XWayland only, not real X11

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Aug 19 04:03:59 CEST 2025


Thiago Macieira wrote:
> should we move our CI to test desktops only on native Wayland and through
> XWayland?

No.

The point of the X11 (xcb) backend is to be used with X11, not with a 
compatibility layer on Wayland. (For that, there is the native Wayland 
backend.) And (real) X11 is not going to go away any time soon. There is 
also a new upstream that does new X11 feature releases (XLibre/X11Libre).

        Kevin Kofler



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