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Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)

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Note: Xface wiki doesn't explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support.

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The updated Xfce Wayland roadmap page now reads: "For Xfce 4.20, the plan is, to add preliminary support to Wayland to core components without losing X11 support.

This doesn't mean that by the next major release an Xfce session on Wayland will offer all existing features, but we hope it will be minimally usable.

The long-term goals for Xfce on Wayland include not depending upon XWayland, using the wlroots Wayland compositor library over libmutter, and maintaining X11 compatibility for the foreseeable future.

Wayland developers are leveraging wlroots for doing much of their heavy lifting.

More details on the Xfce Wayland plans can be found via the Xfce.org Wiki.

The Xfce 4.20 schedule remains "TODO" at this point.

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