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JetBrains to Enable Wayland Support by Default in IntelliJ 2026.1

IntelliJ IDEA logo on a yellow background.JetBrains has announced that native Wayland support will be enabled in its IntelliJ-based IDEs starting with version 2026.1, letting Linux developers work without X11 compatibility layers. Moving its development suite away from legacy X11 is necessary now that major desktop environments and distributions (including Ubuntu) only officially run on or support Wayland out-of-the-box. Wayland support gas been available in preview in 2024. If you run IntelliJ IDEs on Ubuntu right now it likes runs through XWayland, the compatibility layer that allows legacy apps to run on Wayland desktops. While that bridge is functional, matching old X11 protocols on modern compositors […]

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