The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland. There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to have a native Wayland experience that doesn’t depend at all on XWayland and will be using wlroots as part of its compositor. Many Xfce panel plug-ins are working under Wayland as are a number of Xfce’s own applications.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    28•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Xfce 4.18 released last December with some strides on the Wayland front for this lightweight GTK-based desktop environment, but more work remains before Xfce will be fully compatible with Wayland and its own robust compositor.

    The Xfce Wayland road-map was recently updated to reflect the latest work on this major undertaking.

    The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland.

    There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to have a native Wayland experience that doesn’t depend at all on XWayland and will be using wlroots as part of its compositor.

    Many Xfce panel plug-ins are working under Wayland as are a number of Xfce’s own applications.

    Those curious about the Xfce Wayland Roadmap can find the latest details on the Xfce.org Wiki.

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      • Strit
        8•1 year ago

        That just means that the article it self was already pretty straight and to the point. If the TL;DR bot can’t condense it it’s already without “fluff”.

        • @ugo@feddit.it
          4•1 year ago

          Yah, and phoronix is usually a very to-the-point website. But I still found it funny :)

  • @LeFantome@programming.dev
    4•1 year ago

    XFCE is a fairly simple environment. If you can run Xfdesktop, Xfpanel, and Thunar, you have most of the experience. I would be ok running these over another window manager while the rest comes together. I used to use XFCE on an old iMac and Xfwm4 had a pretty bad memory leak so run XFCE over a different WM for a couple of years.

  • @Gamey@feddit.de
    4•1 year ago

    Awesome, I knew XFCE had plans but I didn’t expect them to work out that fast till somewhat recently!

  • Animortis
    1•1 year ago

    That’d be nice. Getting my monitor above 60hz requires Wayland on my AMD card. I’d like another desktop environment option.