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> more and more useful software drops X support and goes Wayland-only.

I can't think of any such case, any example?

Besides even if X support is dropped by an application, 12to11 - or any other Wayland implementation that runs under X - will keep it working. It isn't like most programs use X directly anyway.

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Well I believe there is foot. GTK devs ae planning to drop X11 support in gtk5 and they will start work on that after gnome 45 release so in a couple of years, all gnome apps

Foot was made with Wayland in mind and there are tons of alternative terminals anyway so i don't think its existence is going to inconvenience or even affect at all any Xorg users.

GTK5 might be more of an issue but so far programs barely use GTK4, let alone 5. I'm not sure GNOME applications are used much outside of GNOME. In either case i'd expect something 12to11 to work with those by then (if it doesn't already).

And TBH i'd expect there will be X compatible programs for a very long time to come.

Since GTK4, GTK is a dead framework. I don't even have it on my system. GNOME killed GTK, so I'm waiting for the community to finally fork GTK3 and make a compatibility layer for GTK2, because there are a lot of GTK2 applications.

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