• First preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Tue Jun 23 06:40:08 2026

    Brian Tarricone has announced
    the first preview release of xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment.

    After close to six months of work, I feel like it's ready to get
    some wider use, even though of course there will be bugs and missing
    features. Think of this as an alpha release. [...]

    The end goal of xfwl4 is to behave as closely as possible to an
    Xfce desktop running on an X server. Ideally a user could switch
    between the two without even knowing there's a difference. In reality,
    of course, it won't be quite that seamless, and there's still more
    work to be done to get as close as possible to that ideal. This is a
    first solid cut at it, at the very least.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942/
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