Wayland

[frankzen]

This is part of an answer in the debian mailing list today about Wayland.

Running a window manager in Xwayland is theoretically possible, but practically it'll be worthless. > You're stuck using one of the window managers or desktop environments > that has been ported to Wayland. More precise, "that implement Wayland protocol". And considering a current state of testing, one can choose GNOME, KDE, weston or sway. That's it, unless one builds something else from the source. That means no openbox, twm, icewm, or your favorite panel (because it's a special extension of a Wayland protocol) if you're planning on using Wayland.

It seems Wayland is still some distance off but I ask the question will then eventually cut off Icewm at the knees?

[gijsbers]

That is not clear to me. Currently Wayland can easily be ignored, but
if it ever becomes inescapable we can just make a icewm context, I suppose.
The other options don't look attractive to me.

[covex]

Well and now Fedora is aiming to "not use X11" in F40.... There is probably some time left for X11, but not that much.