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GNOME 49 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Disables X11 Session by Default

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Marius Nestor
Jul 29, 2025

Probably the biggest change of the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment series is that the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session has been disabled by default in various core components, including GDM (GNOME Display Manager), Mutter, and GNOME Session, the latter also dropping the session restore functionality and X Session Management Protocol (XSMP) support.

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Marius Nestor

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