Desktop

The following desktop related features and functionalities are deprecated in Oracle Linux 9.

Totem Media Player

The Totem media player is deprecated.

Power Profiles Daemon

The power-profiles-daemon package has been deprecated. This package provides the power mode configuration in GNOME. Use tuned instead. You can use the tuned-ppd API translation daemon as a drop-in replacement for power-profiles-dameon.

Gedit

gedit is deprecated.

Qt 5

Qt 5 libraries is deprecated.

WebKitGTK

WebKitGTK web browser engine is deprecated. This includes building applications that depend on WebKitGTK.

Evolution

evolution is deprecated.

Festival

Festival speech synthesizer is deprecated. Use the espeak-ng speech synthesizer instead.

Eye of GNOME

The eog package, the Eye of GNOME image viewer application, is deprecated.

Cheese

The Cheese package, a camera application, is deprecated. Use the Snapshot application.

Devhelp

devhelp, a graphical developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation, is deprecated. Find API documentation online in specific upstream projects.

gtkmm (GTK 3 based)

The gtkmm package based on GTK 3 is deprecated. gtkmm is a C++ interface for the GTK graphical toolkit.

TigerVNC

The TigerVNC remote desktop solution is deprecated.

The following packages are deprecated:

  • tigervnc
  • tigervnc-icons
  • tigervnc-license
  • tigervnc-selinux
  • tigervnc-server
  • tigervnc-server-minimal
  • tigervnc-server-module

The gnome-connections application can be used as an alternative VNC client, but it doesn't provide a VNC server.

Future remote desktop solutions are likely to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

X.org Server

In Oracle Linux 9, the X.org display server is deprecated, and consequently, the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package.

The default desktop session is the Wayland session. However, the X11 protocol continues to be supported by using the XWayland backend. Therefore, applications that require X11 can run in Wayland sessions.

GTK 2

The legacy GTK 2 toolkit and the following, related packages are deprecated:

  • adwaita-gtk2-theme

  • gnome-common

  • gtk2

  • gtk2-immodules

  • hexchat

If you maintain an application that uses GTK 2, port the application to GTK 4 as soon as possible.

Motif Toolkit

The Motif widget tool is deprecated, including the following packages:

  • motif

  • openmotif

  • openmotif21

  • openmotif22

Likewise, the motif-static package has been removed. In place of Motif, use the GTK toolkit.

LibreOffice and Inkscape

The LibreOffice RPM packages are now deprecated. However, LibreOffice itself continues to be supported.

As a replacement for the RPM packages, you can use the following sources to install LibreOffice:

Likewise, the Inkscape Flatpak image (inkscape-flatpak) is also deprecated. As a replacement, use the inkscape RPM package from https://inkscape.org/.