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KiCad and Wayland Support

The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent guidance to our users about the current state of Wayland support in KiCad. Current Status Is Functional but Degraded KiCad does run on Wayland systems, but with significant limitations and known issues that substantially degrade the user experience.

KiCad does run on Wayland systems, but with significant limitations and known issues that substantially degrade the user experience. The following problems are known issues in Wayland protocols or their implementation in desktop compositors, window managers or other layers in the display stack that are beyond our ability to resolve: Cursor/pointer warping: Essential for many CAD operations, it is conditionally available in some Wayland implementations, depending on support for optional protocol extensions

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