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; {{Anchor|XWayland}} XWayland

: XWayland is a series of patches over the X.Org server codebase that implement an X server running upon the [[Wayland (protocol)|Wayland]] protocol. The patches are developed and maintained by the Wayland developers for compatibility with X11 applications during the transition to Wayland,<ref>{{cite web|title=X Clients under Wayland (XWayland)|url=http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html|publisher=Wayland Project|access-date=10 February 2014}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and were mainlined in version 1.16 of the X.Org Server in 2014.<ref name="xorgserver1160">{{cite web |url=http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-July/002457.html |title=ANNOUNCE: xorg-server 1.16.0 |publisher=[[freedesktop.org]] |date=17 July 2014}}</ref> When a user runs an X application from within [[Wayland (display server protocol)|Weston]], it calls upon XWayland to service the request.<ref>

{{cite web|title=Wayland|url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland#XWayland|publisher=[[Arch Linux]] Project|access-date=2016-05-09}}</ref>

; {{Anchor|XQuartz}} XQuartz

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: [[Cygwin/X]], [[Cygwin]]'s implementation of the X server for [[Microsoft Windows]], uses the X.Org Server, as do VcXsrv<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/marchaesen/vcxsrv |title=VcXsrv Windows X Server |publisher=Github.com |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref> ([[Visual C++]] X-server<ref>{{cite web

| url = httphttps://vcxsrv.sourceforge.net/

| title = VcXsrv Windows X Server

| website = SourceForge.net