XLibre
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14recommend
13warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Oct 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Xlibre brought XNamespaces -- as well as HDR and seat management”
“why not embrace _that_ rather than go down the crooked Wayland path?”
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“I don't think so: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver”
“it is actively maintained still”
Caveats and dissent
“Recently even Artix had to drop XLibre support for causing too many issues”
“Given who founded Xlibre (Metux) has some...interesting history”
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“You forgot to mention that Xlibre is run by a conspiracy theorist”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC 6 mentions
- Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor 6 mentions
- XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release 4 mentions
- Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig 4 mentions
- X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland 3 mentions
- Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager 2 mentions
Also written as X11Libre, Xlibre, X11Libre xserver, X11libre. Data: xlibre.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“Let's see whether this will succeed though”
“Recently even Artix had to drop XLibre support for causing too many issues”
“At least one was looks like it was sourced from XLibre”
“Do you have a link to someone analyzing/considering the changes made to Xlibre relative to Xorg??”
“Xlibre brought XNamespaces -- as well as HDR and seat management”
“Given who founded Xlibre (Metux) has some...interesting history”
“why not embrace _that_ rather than go down the crooked Wayland path?”
“Working on it:”
“You forgot to mention that Xlibre is run by a conspiracy theorist”
“It can. Easily.”
See also yserver[0]: A modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust. 0: https://github.com/joske/yserver
“I don't think so: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver”
“it is actively maintained still”
Not the only one, there's also a new one (written in zig) I've forgot the name of. edit: phoenix was the name: https://github.com/external-mirrors/phoenix#phoenix
“Xlibre (the only current actively developed implementation of a X11 server) has a new extension - XNamespace”
“So I am glad to see the momentum, the cleanups, and most of all, the continued dedication”
“Oh yes, by this wonderful guy.”
“Why not xserver https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver or gtk2-ng”
“Perhaps https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver can revive the older ecosystem.”
“x11libre specifically is a little suspicious though”
“imagine if a non-corporate controlled ecosystem would emerge.”
“I recommend staying far away from”
“I recommend staying far away from x11libre.”
“At least, it's encouraging to hear it's getting maintained.”
“I wouldn't put too much trust into that project.”
“the kind that introduces regressions?”
“the founder of X11Libre was removed from the X.Org project for demonstrated incompetence.”
“which is now getting all these fancy features”
“then do gather up some likeminded folks to hire a dev to follow the guidance here”
“Seems to be getting plenty of development.”
“a project that wants to maintain X11”
https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/251#discussioncomment-15543055
“There's actually a very active fork of Xorg called Xlibre”
“hence the XLibre fork”
“The recent XLibre release[1] has a long list of bugfixes and new features.”
Just got a major release as well with tons of new contributors and fixes/additions: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/releases/tag/xlibre-xserver-25.1.0
“But, right now, XLibre[0] is available, ready for use and very active.”
Long term if x11 starts having issues then probably https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback will be it
“Complements XLibre[0], an active fork of the X11 server from Xorg.”
“No, thanks.”