Xfce 4.20 Releases With Experimental Wayland Support and More Upgrades

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Posted by z3d in Linux (edited )

Many in the Linux community regard Xfce as a genuinely great desktop environment that is lightweight, fast, and highly customizable in nature, allowing anyone to have a fully featured desktop experience without the bloat factor.

Usually, there is a large gap between new Xfce releases, and this time is no different, as Xfce 4.20 has arrived two years after the Xfce 4.18 release.

Marking a major point in Xfce's development, the Xfce 4.20 release is an important release that signals the desktop environment's slow but noticeable move towards Wayland.

The release's key highlights include:

  • Core Upgrades
  • Experimental Wayland Support
  • Improved Thunar File Manager

A long time coming, initial support for Wayland has been pushed to Xfce as part of this release. Unfortunately, it is not recommended for production/general use, as there is a high probability of bugs and incomplete functionality.

Currently, most Xfce components run on Wayland while keeping support for X11 windowing intact. They made this possible by simplifying all the X11/Wayland-specific calls and incorporating Wayland/wlroots protocols as part of a new Xfce library called “libxfce4windowing”.

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