--- title: Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver description: Linux Mint is developing a new screensaver compatible with Wayland as part of their ongoing effort to support both X11 and Wayland display servers. The team... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-mint-developing-new-wayland-compatible-screensaver-fdrwnyv0a twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver | daily.dev og:description: Linux Mint is developing a new screensaver compatible with Wayland as part of their ongoing effort to support both X11 and Wayland display servers. The team... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-mint-developing-new-wayland-compatible-screensaver-fdrwnyv0a og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FdrwNyV0A.png og:image:alt: Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux Mint is developing a new screensaver compatible with Wayland as part of their ongoing effort to support both X11 and Wayland display servers. The team emphasizes that Wayland support remains experimental and won't necessarily become the default, with the final choice depending on what works best for most users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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