About

XLibre is the community-managed display server for the X Window System Protocol Version 11 (Wikipedia), in short, X11.

Our Mission

The XLibre contributors strive to clean up and strengthen the existing code base while maintaining backward compatibility to make X11 a viable choice for the future. Another goal is to actively enhance the functionality of the Xserver and its drivers. We also take care of the improvements to the X.Org Server that have been unreleased for several years or were made to Xwayland only. Our decision-making is based on merit and our active community keen to bring X forward.

Our Achievements

Since the fork on June 5, 2025, our by now more than 50 unique contributors have, e.g., released numerous code cleanups, the Xnamespace extension for separating X clients, and backported all CVE fixes of the X.Org Server as of today. Together we integrated TearFree by default and allowed enabling atomic modesetting.

We re-added support for the proprietary Nvidia driver versions 340, 390, 470 in addition to the already supported Nvidia versions 570, and newer. Xfbdev, the generic framebuffer Xserver for Linux, has been brought back too.

There is now support for seat management via seatd besides systemd-logind and our CI builds the XLibre Xserver and its drivers on several BSDs, Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Download

The Xlibre project is hosted on GitHub. You can find the source code and the releases at github.com/X11Libre.

Precompiled binaries for XLibre are available for many distributions. Please take a look at our Are We XLibre Yet? page to find yours.

I want to help!

That's great; there's enough to do for everyone. You may consider one of the many ideas and feature requests out there. To help in testing, you may consider becoming an XLibre Test Driver. Please also have a look at the good first and help wanted issues and the Liberated Screens.

If you want to work on anything, just let us know. If you have any questions, just ask. Thank you!

The XLibre project is free of discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcome. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome too.

Contact

XLibre Discussions at GitHub | XLibre mailing list at FreeLists | @x11dev channel at Telegram | #xlibredev space at Matrix | XLibre security contact at GitHub

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