Among Linux desktops, the X server Xorg still generally works as a display server. The X server is the hardware-related basis of the graphical user interface. All the components mentioned below are ...

Sometimes you come across one of those ideas that at first appear to have to be some kind of elaborate joke, but as you dig deeper into it, it begins to make a disturbing kind of sense. This is where ...

Canonical has made the decision to revert back to the Xorg display server in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, citing stability concerns. The company plans to continue testing and working on Wayland to improve it.

Ariadne Conill has presented the experimental Xorg compatibility layer Wayback. This enables Linux distributions to completely abandon the Xorg server without taking the ground out from under the feet ...

Canonical plans to drop the Xserver Xorg in Ubuntu Desktop 25.10, so that the login manager and Gnome desktop will only run in the more modern Wayland mode. The distributor did not provide any ...

The desktop Linux ecosystem has been slowly migrating from X11 to Wayland, which is leaving behind some desktop environments. The Wayback project aims to fix that, and it has just reached its first ...

A vulnerability that is trivial to exploit allows privilege escalation to root level on Linux and BSD distributions using X.Org server, the open source implementation of the X Window System that ...

If you’re not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, and the one fork everyone knows about is best known as a ...

GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.… Eric Turgeon, maintainer of the easy-to-install graphical GhostBSD ...