Xfwl4's First Preview Release
4 hours ago
- #Wayland
- #Xfce
- #Open Source
- First preview release of xfwl4, Xfce's Wayland compositor, announced after six months of work.
- Thanks to Xfce core team for sponsorship and supporters for donations, enabling focused development since early this year.
- Source tarball, build instructions, issue tracker, and Git repository provided for users to test and report issues.
- Goal is to mimic Xfce desktop on X server for seamless user experience, though some features are still missing or broken.
- Notable non-working features include Mouse and Touchpad settings, Workspaces dialog, screen margins, xfdesktop minimized icon view, pager thumbnails, limited taskbar app controls, keyboard shortcuts for app switching, and window restoration issues.
- Planned blog series to detail xfwl4 development process, with updates to be linked as published.