I have been using xfce since 2006 and still do.

However, I’m increasingly concerned that xfce will not “make the cut” to Wayland, or that there just isn’t enough dev momentum to get th e xfce stack into a working state under Wayland.

Are there any wayland-compatible DE/compositor/windowing systems that will:

  • allow me to setup my floating window metaphor the way I want
  • have the same “stay out of the way” philosophy

Are any other xfce users here thinking this also?

I said “floating window metaphor”, but I actually don’t mind trying a tiling compositor like sway, all suggestions are welcome here, as well as any discussion on this topic of “what next?”

  • nortio@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I would suggest using labwc with XFCE components or LXQT which has some Wayland support through external compositors.

    Keep in mind that labwc is just a compositor and not a full desktop environment, so if you want to have a similar experience to XFCE you’ll have to setup all the desktop components such as taskbars or desktop icons yourself. Fortunately you can use xfce4-panel and xfce4-desktop which are made by XFCE themselves and get most of the way there (these are Wayland compatible). If you don’t like labwc there’s also Wayfire.

  • lambaliciousEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Just keep using Xorg. Wayland is still not ready enough that something like XFCE will do a complete drop.