[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Announcing QEP 419: Improved Wayland compatibility

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 14:55, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
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> Hi Nyall,
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> Thank you for this initiative. Sounds useful to me.
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> As a reminder: we still have a significant number of consulting/development hours at KDAB available to support such an effort, if it is useful to reach the goal.

Good point! I've added a note accordingly to the QEP.
(https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/376/changes/22eb9d4e7)

Nyall

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> Greetings,
> Andreas
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> On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 04:18, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> Over the last couple of years, most Linux distributions and desktop environments have been transitioning from the legacy X11 display server to the Wayland standard. The transition has reached a stage where many environments are now completely dropping support for the X11 server.
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>> This presents a challenge to Linux QGIS users, as the current QGIS versions have limitations and bugs when run in a Wayland environment.
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>> QEP 419 aims to address these limitations in the "best possible" way, given the (many!) constraints of Wayland.
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>> Please see full details of the proposal at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/376. Discussion and comments welcome!
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>> This QEP will be submitted as part of the QGIS.org grant program
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>> Nyall
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