Q: Did GTK drop X11 support?
A: No, GTK 3 and 4 still support X11. Support was deprecated in GTK 4 and will be removed in GTK 5, which right now is in its planning phase; however, once GTK 5 is released, GTK 4 will still be supported for many years to come
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