| guide | Our friend Joshua Strobl (you know him from the Budgie desktop environment and the Solus distribution) wrote in a lengthy blog post today that in the coming months, Wayland support will be implemented for the Budgie desktop, and even for the current Budgie 10 series provides support. |
"We have decided to take a proactive approach to making Wayland support a reality in the Budgie 10 series".
At the time of writing this article, the Budgie desktop environment does not support Wayland. Last year, Joshua gave us a preview of "Wayland-focused development" for the Budgie 11 series, saying "Budgie 11 will be developed with Wayland as the primary method of using Budgie 11."
However, Budgie 11 isn't nearly complete yet, with no firm release date yet. However, with the Budgie 10 series being actively maintained, Joshua Strobl is now talking about the possibility of it getting Wayland support sooner than you might think.
In order to achieve this huge goal, but also to meet the immediate needs of users, the developers of Budgie will soften GNOME's Mutter window and composition manager from the still-supported GNOME 43 series, and mention that it will be designed to be used only in Budgie Work on the desktop.
Additionally, they plan to implement an alternative Wayland compositor, built on top of wlroots, a modular, vendor-neutral Wayland compositor library designed to implement extensive Wayland compositor functionality. This wlroots based Wayland synth for Budgie 10 will be called Magpie.
By the time Magpie sees the light of day, Budgie 10 will no longer support X11.
"While Mutter's excellent Wayland compositor can be seen as adequate for the short-term needs of the Budgie 10 series, Budgie 11 will result in a separation from the GNOME stack, so to avoid duplicating work or further complicating our existing soft forks, We decided to immediately invest time in building a compositor that utilizes wlroots," explains Joshua Strobl.
So if you've ever hoped to use a Budgie under Wayland, a future update to the current Budgie 10 series will turn that dream into a reality. Of course, not everything works out as it should under Wayland, and it will take a few releases before Budgie 11 sees the light of day as a Wayland-only version.