diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7527921ba6..00329837d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ Bottom level categories:
 
 #### OpenGL
 - Fix internal format for the `Etc2Rgba8Unorm` format. By @andristarr in [#5178](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5178)
+- Try to load `libX11.so.6` in addition to `libX11.so` on linux. [#5307](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5307)
 
 #### `glsl-in`
 
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/gles/egl.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/gles/egl.rs
index aa985d8121..d96dcc8dbf 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/gles/egl.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/gles/egl.rs
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ impl Drop for DisplayOwner {
 fn open_x_display() -> Option<DisplayOwner> {
     log::debug!("Loading X11 library to get the current display");
     unsafe {
-        let library = libloading::Library::new("libX11.so").ok()?;
+        let library = find_library(&["libX11.so.6", "libX11.so"])?;
         let func: libloading::Symbol<XOpenDisplayFun> = library.get(b"XOpenDisplay").unwrap();
         let result = func(ptr::null());
         ptr::NonNull::new(result).map(|ptr| DisplayOwner {