{"id":49063,"date":"2025-06-10T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49063"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:34:50","slug":"ubuntu-2510-remove-xorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/ubuntu-2510-remove-xorg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 25.10 Going to Remove Xorg Session for GNOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To follow the upstream GNOME’s road-map, Ubuntu confirmed to remove the classic X11\/Xorg session in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release!<\/b><\/p>\n

GNOME development team is planning to disable X11 session by default<\/a> in next GNOME 49 and remove the code in v50.<\/p>\n

TLDR: The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it\u2019s scheduled for removal, either during this development cycle or more likely during the next one (GNOME 50).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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As the Wayland experience has matured significantly, and Ubuntu 25.10 is the last short term release before the next 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu team decided to remove the Xorg-based Ubuntu session in 25.10, giving users and developers half a year of time to adapt before the next LTS.<\/p>\n

With Ubuntu 25.10 \u201cQuesting Quokka,\u201d we are taking a significant step forward in the evolution of the Ubuntu Desktop by removing the Xorg-based Ubuntu session. Starting with this release the \u201cUbuntu\u201d session in GDM will run exclusively on Wayland.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It means that there will no longer “Ubuntu on Xorg” session<\/b> to choose from GDM Login screen since 25.10. All GNOME Shell and Mutter based sessions will be Wayland only, though most X11 applications will run on Wayland transparently through XWayland.<\/p>\n

For those who still need X11, non-GNOME desktop environments, e.g., KUbuntu, XUbuntu, Ubuntu MATE, are recommended.<\/p>\n

To discus about the change, go to this Ubuntu Discourse thread<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To follow the upstream GNOME’s road-map, Ubuntu confirmed to remove the classic X11\/Xorg session in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release! GNOME development team is planning to disable X11 session by default in next GNOME 49 and remove the code in v50. TLDR: The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,2338],"class_list":["post-49063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gnome","tag-ubuntu-25-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}