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In case you missed it, LXQt and Xfce both support Wayland now (lxqt-project.org)

submitted 5 days ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Both don't ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.

Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don't know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.

LXQt's newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri

https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

For what it's worth, they have experimental Wayland support. It's an important distinction.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Support might be a strong word.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

why would they need inferior scientists?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

XFCE only mostly though. Stuff like tray and xfwm (the window manager) not yet.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's actually fucking rad.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Great news hope to see Wayland being more popular

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Might push to run Sway + XFCE on my laptop, opposed to i3 + XFCE

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what distros are confident enough to enable it by default atm?

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Fedora, so most Gnome based distros. KDE as commented beside me. Arch-based EndeavourOS.