Wayback
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6recommend
0warn against
Nov 26, 2025first mention
Aug 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“FWIW I think "wayback" is the project for this. It seems to be trying to use XWayland to run full X11 desktop environments on top of Wayland”
“there's always https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback for that.”
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“Long term if x11 starts having issues then probably https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback will be it”
“For those who actually care about X11 DEs being kept supported, there's https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback”
“There's a new fdo project called Wayback”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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“It exists:”
“FWIW I think "wayback" is the project for this. It seems to be trying to use XWayland to run full X11 desktop environments on top of Wayland”
“there's always https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback for that.”
“Long term if x11 starts having issues then probably https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback will be it”
“For those who actually care about X11 DEs being kept supported, there's https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback”
“There's a new fdo project called Wayback”
“the answer is to just use Wayback. It is a different X11 server implementation that uses Wayland under the hood”