• First preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Monday, June 22, 2026 16:00:07
    First preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor

    Date:
    Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:44:52 +0000

    Description:
    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.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942/


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