Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

Deep beneath the polished surface of modern Linux desktops, a ghost is stirring. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 has been announced on the xorg mailing list, marking the latest evolution of a remarkable piece of digital necromancy: a compatibility layer that lets applications written for the 1980s-era X11 windowing system run, unmodified, inside the brave new world of Wayland. It's a time machine disguised as a display server — a Rosetta Stone for graphical interfaces that translates between two fundamentally different philosophies of drawing pixels on a screen. While most users will never see it, Xwayland is the invisible bridge that keeps the computing past alive in the present,