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 ## Wayland
 
-Wayland support is available, but not everything works as expected. Many people
-have found a better experience using XWayland which can be achieved by
-launching Alacritty with the `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` environment variable cleared:
+Wayland is used by default on systems that support it. Using XWayland may
+circumvent Wayland specific issues and can be enabled through:
 
 ```sh
-env WAYLAND_DISPLAY="" alacritty
+env WINIT_UNIX_BACKEND=x11 alacritty
 ```
 
-If you're interested in seeing our Wayland support improve, please head over to
-the [Wayland meta issue] on the _winit_ project to see how you may contribute.
-
 ## License
 
 Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].