Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad

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Post by MaxLeiter » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad
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Re: Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad

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Post by lukeh » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC

Correction: Apple never used X as a native window system, nor did NeXT. The did provide the hooks for an X11 server to run on macOS. From memory this was due to requests from the academic community at the time.

Re: Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad

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Post by MaxLeiter » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 2:42 AM UTC

lukeh wrote: post #2

Correction: Apple never used X as a native window system, nor did NeXT. The did provide the hooks for an X11 server to run on macOS. From memory this was due to requests from the academic community at the time.

Thanks, I made a correction

Re: Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad

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Post by solarkraft » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

What an incredible project. I also find it tragic how much Apple hates people running software on their devices that makes them vastly more useful.

Re: Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad

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Post by The_SamminAter » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

Neat! I sent you an email about possibly making it work on older versions of iOS.