Linux

11396 readers

1069 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev

112

Xfce Desktop Environment Is Getting a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor (9to5linux.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The Xfce project is working on a brand-new Wayland compositor for their lightweight desktop environment, which will be used as an alternative to the current window manager to support Wayland sessions.

Meet Xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce designed to offer the same functionality and behavior as Xfwm4, but for Wayland sessions, not X11. Therefore, future Xfce releases will ship with both Xfwm4 and Xfwl4 to provide users with support for X11 and Wayland sessions and ensure a seamless transition between them.

The work will be led by Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone, who plans to reuse the existing configuration dialogs and xfconf settings from the Xfwm4 window manager, which is currently used on the latest Xfce 4.20 release. However, the dev said that Xfwl4 won’t be based on the existing Xfwm4 code.

top 8 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Meet Xfwl4

would it kill them to have a name people could remember or pronounce? lol

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Yes. They should use a generic word that's already used by 15 other projects... that's how everyone does SEO these days. :P

Only half joking, though. It's such a rare and refreshing experience to enter a name of a thing into a search engine and get the relevant results.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

xforms-common-environment-wayland-4 it is then!

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 points 23 hours ago

thexfcewaylandcompositorweveallbeenwaitingformambonumberfour

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

If they have to change the names of things, Xfce users are probably fine with taking it one letter at a time.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I do love xfce

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet they'll get mad if I call it "X-fowl" instead of X-F-W-L lol

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Of course they would. X isn't a vowel after all!