Note: Xface wiki doesn’t explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support.
On https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap it says:
xfce4-panel and xfdesktop have been ported to Wayland assuming our compositor will be based on wlroots.
xfce4-panel + xfdesktop + labwc is all the ‘xfce’ I think I’d ever need; so the wayland port is more or less ‘done’, AFAIC.
(Thunar has been wayland native since the gtk3 port completed a long time ago.)
For me, xfwm is the defining feature. I have my own custom super-minimal window theme (old screenshot showing mpv looking like PiP, I made a newer version with the idea of rolling up windows such as when playing music). Also the tweaks for hiding the titlebar when maximized.
Though I’m also on nvidia (1050Ti) so I don’t really even think about Wayland.
WFCE
The X in XFCE doesn’t stand for X11.
The name Xfce originally stood for “XForms Common Environment”, but since then Xfce has been rewritten twice and doesn’t use the XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as “XFCE” and is no longer an abbreviation for anything (wiki)
I agree that the Xf in Xfce ( originally XFCE ) stands for XForms ( or did originally ). You do not think that the X in XForms stands for X11 though?
XForms is a port of the Forms library ( originally a GL based SGI toolkit ) to X11. I do not know for sure but it seems pretty obvious that the X in XForms stands for X11.
Once we all move to Wayland, the Xfce name will carry quite a bit of history in its name. I kind of like that.
YES!!! Pretty much anyone interested knew that unofficially, we would be getting initial Wayland support by XFCE 4.20 later this year, but seeing it confirmed makes me very happy! 2024 is shaping up to be the year of Wayland, part 1, and 2025 to be the Year of Wayland, part 2.
