# Question about enlightenment : transitioning from X11 to Wayland?

**URL:** <https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376>\
**Category:** Enlightenment\
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376 "2018-08-25T21:42:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jfbourdeau](https://forum.elivelinux.org/user_avatar/forum.elivelinux.org/jfbourdeau/32/43_2.png) [@jfbourdeau](https://forum.elivelinux.org/u/jfbourdeau)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376/1 "2018-08-25T21:42:20Z")

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> **[10 Best Desktop Environments for Linux - (Feature Comparison In 2022)](https://fossbytes.com/best-linux-desktop-environments/)**
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> A desktop environment is a complete software suite that offers a graphical user interface along with several desktop native applications.

### 10. Enlightenment

_Started long back in 1996 as a project to build a Window Manager for X11, Enlightenment, or simply called E, provides a graphical shell that can be used along with desktop environments like KDE and GNOME. In case you choose to use it along with EFL (libraries), it can act as a full-fledged Linux desktop environment. Bodhi Linux, a popular and lightweight Linux distro, earlier shipped with Enlightenment as default desktop; now it uses an Enlightenment fork named Moksha desktop. This Linux desktop environment project is currently transitioning from X11 to Wayland and plans to completelty more to Wayland eventually._

Do you see that as good for us ?

JF

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**Author:** ![triantares](https://forum.elivelinux.org/user_avatar/forum.elivelinux.org/triantares/32/2550_2.png) [@triantares](https://forum.elivelinux.org/u/triantares)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376/2 "2020-09-17T08:50:02Z")

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I'd like to revive i.e bump up this question as I suspect that E16 won't run nicely on wayland as is.:shocked:

Which will essentially make porting E16 to Bullseye-Sid on the [Pinebook Pro](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/pinebook-pro-review-will-progress/2287/20) a tad harder, to say the least. :coding:

And all in all another reason to jump the gun and start aiming for an optimized E24.

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**Author:** ![Thanatermesis](https://forum.elivelinux.org/user_avatar/forum.elivelinux.org/thanatermesis/32/3_2.png) [@Thanatermesis](https://forum.elivelinux.org/u/Thanatermesis)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376/3 "2020-09-18T01:30:54Z")

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> [@triantares](#):
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> I'd like to revive i.e bump up this question as I suspect that E16 won't run nicely on wayland as is.:shocked:

I don't think so, E24+ relies entirely on its own libraries, which can use different rendering (display) engines, this means that it can run uppon X11, wayland, or maybe even in framebuffer!

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**Author:** ![TheTechRobo](https://forum.elivelinux.org/user_avatar/forum.elivelinux.org/thetechrobo/32/3394_2.png) [@TheTechRobo](https://forum.elivelinux.org/u/TheTechRobo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.elivelinux.org/t/question-about-enlightenment-transitioning-from-x11-to-wayland/376/4 "2020-09-18T11:57:01Z")

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> [@Thanatermesis](#):
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> I don't think so, E24+

That's exactly what he was saying here:

> [@triantares](#):
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> And all in all another reason to jump the gun and start aiming for an optimized E24.