Why not yserver? It’s Xserver, but Rust-y.
The yserver project is a new display manager option for those not using Wayland, offering a Rust-based alternative to Xorg. Yserver is not a full reimplementation of Xorg and currently lacks features such as multi-monitor support. It has been tested on various hardware and can run standalone or via Xwayland or Xorg, with support for certain desktop environments and window managers.
- ▪Yserver is a Rust-based display manager released under the MIT license by joske.
- ▪It is not a full reimplementation of Xorg and lacks features such as multi-monitor support.
- ▪Yserver has been tested on Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Apple chips and can run on Linux and FreeBSD.
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Why Not Yserver? It’s Xserver, But Rust-y. No comments by: Tyler August June 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you’re not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, and the one fork everyone knows about is best known as a political lightning rod. Luckily, Rust developers can apparently never see a tool without pulling it into their heavily oxidized bucket of crabs, so we now have another option: the creatively named yserver, released under the MIT license by [joske]. The name, yserver, for the record, is just a placeholder name, but we rather like the simple logic of “Y comes after X” — sure, you could call it X12, but that could imply continuity, and this is a clean break.
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