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GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself.

In other words, the GNOME project is finally closing one of the longest chapters in Linux desktop history. With the upcoming GNOME 50 release, scheduled for mid-march 2026, the desktop environment will officially drop support for the native X11 session, making Wayland the sole display system moving forward.

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 8 hours ago

That explains things. Non-focused applications cannot read keystrokes on Wayland.

Since Discord is still running in X11, if you are on KDE you can enable one of these options as a workaround:

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Hopefully Discord (or a wrapper for it) will eventually get proper global shortcut support, in which case you can set it right in the KDE shortcut settings.