Head of division desktop company Red Hat Christian Schaller revealed on his blog the team's plans to develop Wayland and completely stop development of the X Window System (X, X11):
Christian Schaller:
βOnce we're done with this (complete removal of the need for XWayland, author's note), we plan to move X.org into 'high support' mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is mostly maintained by us, and thus if we stop spending time on it, it's unlikely there will be new "major" releases, and even perhaps things will fall into disrepair over time. We'll keep an eye on this as we want to make sure X.org remains supported until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle, at the very least, and let it be a friendly note to anyone who relies on our work to support the Linux graphics stack: move to Wayland. this is the future.β
Given that Red Hat's standard support cycle is a minimum of 10 years (more at an additional cost), it means that X.org will receive updates from the company all this time.
More interesting in the article:
- the main goal is to remove the dependency on X completely, so that the Gnome environment works without XWayland (work is almost complete) This will happen in the next or next major release of Gnome (3.34 or 3.36)
- XWayland server will start as needed and shut down when the program that needs it ends
- work is underway to launch graphical applications in XWayland as root
- Work is underway to improve Wayland's SDL library support for screen scaling for low resolution games
- finally completed support for hardware acceleration when working with Nvidia's proprietary driver for XWayland (acceleration worked only with Wayland) "need to wait for approval from Nvidia"
Source: linux.org.ru