The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent guidance to our users about the current state of Wayland support in KiCad.
Current Status Is Functional but Degraded KiCad does run on Wayland systems, but with significant limitations and known issues that substantially degrade the user experience.
The entire design and architecture of Wayland always seemed like a bad idea, and has inevitably fragmented. This posr from the KiCad team is a pretty damning indictment of just how bad an idea it is. There’s undoubtedly some good stuff being built on it, the tiling dedktops look particulrly interesting, but they’re built on sand right now.