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GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5


GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels

Broadway was a nifty back-end for outputting to modern HTML5 for GTK apps within web browsers but ultimately not much use. GTK developers previously talked about deprecating their X11 support in favor of Wayland and that has now taken place. On the GTK blog they also outline other spring cleaning like dropping support for prior to Windows 10 and macOS 10.15.

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