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Are We XLibre Yet?
This page lists distributions, operating systems, and X11 software in regard to XLibre support so that you can make an informed choice. If you wish to edit this page due to political events or you are unsure about your intended changes, please first talk about it.
The maintainers of these distributions created packages for XLibre or intend to create them.
There is a third-party repository with XLibre packages for these distributions. Unless otherwise stated, these packages are in working condition to the best of our knowledge.
Wherever possible, there is a link to a starting point for using XLibre in the above "Remarks" columns. We also always try to link to a discussion where you can find some fellow users and help each other. For reporting issues, please go to the respective repository or use Issues · X11Libre/xserver for general ones. For work in progress, we encourage you to contribute code or test the solution if you like to. Together we can improve.
The maintainers of the distribution expressed concerns about packaging XLibre, do not want to add it or removed X11.
| Distribution | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ⛔ | Aeryn OS | "Hell no." and "Very unlikely." (Source) |
| ⛔ | Alpine Linux | Rejected for political reasons (Sources: 1 2 3 4) |
| ⛔ | Bazzite | "X11 has been removed, ... not coming back..." (Source) |
| ⛔ | Chimera Linux | They have called XLibre maintainers names as well as the third-party package maintainers for XLibre. (Sources: 1 2) |
| ⛔ | Kubuntu | Removed X11 default session for new installs (Source) |
| ⛔ | MidnightBSD | "It has absolutely nothing to do with DEI..." (Source) |
| ⛔ | NixOS | The maintainers have little to no support for it. (Source) |
| ⛔ | Ubuntu Desktop | Support for GNOME on Xorg has been dropped (Sources: 1 2) |
| ⛔ | ... | ... |
If your distribution of choice does not support XLibre, you may resort to the third-party support. If there is none, please have a look at our 💬 XLibre on Other Distributions Discussion.
There has been some discussion about whether to create packages for XLibre, but there is no decision yet.
| Distribution | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ❓ | Debian | Discussions on their forums indicate they will take a wait and see approach (Source) |
| ❓ | helloSystem | Consideration of XLibre requested (Source) |
| ❓ | Linux From Scratch | "It's all a matter of maturity and reliability... Give one or two years..." (Source) |
| ❓ | Linux Mint | "Let us wait and see how things will evolve." (Source) |
| ❓ | MX Linux | "Topic Locked - out of control" (Source) |
| ❓ | OpenBSD | They have Xenocara, a X.Org 7.7 variant (Source) |
| ❓ | openSUSE | There were discussions on their forums. (Sources: 1 2) |
| ❓ | postmarketOS | Upstream (Alpine) has rejected the idea of including XLibre, may also continue into postmarketOS. |
| ❓ | Raspberry Pi OS | Packages could be added if XLibre gets into Debian stable, but unsupported. (Source) |
| ❓ | Slackware | Patrick Volkerding: "I try to keep an open mind." (Source) |
| ❓ | Solus OS | "We will wait and see..." (Source) |
| ❓ | Void Linux | "Let's wait for some dust to settle..." (Source: 1) |
| ❓ | Ubuntu MATE | "X11/Xorg will still be available for 25.10 & is expected for 26.04 LTS if you're using other desktop/WMs." (Source) |
| ❓ | ... | ... |
If it is still unclear whether your distribution of choice will support XLibre, you may resort to the third-party support. If there is none, please have a look at our 💬 XLibre on Other Distributions Discussion.
This section lists desktop environments and their support for X11 and XLibre.
| DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Budgie | up to version 10.9 |
| ✅ | CDE | works at least on FreeBSD |
| ✅ | Cinnamon | - |
| ❓ | Enlightenment | should work |
| ✅ | GNOME | up to version 48 |
| ✅ | KDE | KDE lists XLibre as packages to avoid installing |
| ✅ | LXDE | - |
| ✅ | LXQt | - |
| ✅ | MATE | - |
| ✅ | Moksha | - |
| ✅ | SonicDE | SonicDE - GitHub, fork of KDE Plasma 6 |
| ✅ | TDE | - |
| ✅ | Xfce | works also on default Void linux XFCE .iso installation |
| ❓ | ... | should work |
A side note: Please feel free to change the status accordingly if you use one of the above-mentioned desktop environments with XLibre.
| DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Cinnamon | X11 by default, Wayland support WIP (Source) |
| ✅ | Enlightenment | X11 by default, Wayland support WIP. Website implies X11 deprecation, but this information is reportedly outdated in the advent of XLibre. (Sources 1 2 3) |
| ✅ | MATE | X11 by default, Wayland support WIP (Source) |
| ✅ | LXQt | X11 by default, Wayland support WIP (Sources: 1 2) |
| ✅ | Moksha | X11 by default, supports Wayland clients (Source) |
| ✅ | SonicDE | X11 by default, no public plans for Wayland support |
| ✅ | TDE | X11 by default, no public plans for Wayland support |
| ✅ | Xfce | X11 will stay, Wayland support WIP (Sources: 1 2) |
| ✅ | ... | ... |
| DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ⛔ | Budgie | Budgie 10.10+ will be Wayland only (Source) |
| ⛔ | GNOME | GNOME 50+ will be Wayland only (Source), please see gnome-xorg for a WIP of bringing back X11 support onto GNOME 50+ |
| ⛔ | KDE | KDE Plasma 6.8+ will be Wayland only (Source), please see SonicDE for the X11-specific aspects of KDE Plasma 6 |
| ⛔ | ... | ... |
| DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| ❓ | ... | ... |
This section lists display managers and their support for X11 and XLibre.
| DM | DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | dtlogin | CDE | works at least in FreeBSD, rarely packaged by distributions, systemd logind free |
| ✅ | Entrance | Enlightenment | systemd logind free |
| ✅ | GDM | GNOME | - |
| ✅ | LightDM | (agnostic) | - |
| ✅ | LXDM | LXDE | - |
| ✅ | SDDM | KDE/LXQt | - |
| ✅ | SLiM | (agnostic) | systemd logind free, available at SLiM-fork |
| ✅ | TDM | TDE | Available through third-party packages |
| ✅ | XDM | (agnostic) | - |
| ✅ | LY | (agnostic) | ncurses-like TUI display manager: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly |
| ❓ | ... | ... | should work |
A side note: Please feel free to change the status accordingly if you use one of the above-mentioned display managers with XLibre.
| DM | DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⛔ | GDM | GNOME | GNOME 50+ will be Wayland only (Source) |
| ⛔ | ... | ... | ... |
| DM | DE | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❓ | ... | ... | ... |
This section lists X11 window managers and their support for XLibre.
A side note: Please feel free to change the status accordingly if you use one of the above-mentioned window managers with XLibre or add anything missing.
✅ Working | 🏗️ Work in Progress | 📣 Announced | ❓ Unclear | ⛔ No support
- https://linuxiac.com/the-curious-case-of-xlibre-xserver/
- XLibre: The Middle Finger to IBM That Could Save Linux
- Dedoimedo: Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre!
- Comparison of X Window System desktop environments - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager
- Display manager - ArchWiki
- https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions
