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xfwl4_faq

kelnos@undisclosed.example.com (kelnos) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:27:25 +0000

Xfwl4 (Xfce's Wayland Compositor) FAQ Will xfwl4 behave just like xfwm4? As much as is possible, yes. The holy grail would be if you can't even tell that you're running xfwl4 instead of X11+xfwm4. In reality, that won't quite be the case. Some desktop environment concepts are just not standardized on Wayland, and aren't implementable. It will take time to achieve feature parity with xfwm4, so some things might be missing for a while. And while I'll do my best, I'm sure I'll make mistakes,…

start - Add link to xfwl4 FAQ page

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:16:35 +0000

Welcome to the Xfce Developer Wiki * * * Google Summer of Code * * * ---------- This is the place to store Xfce related information which is not appropriate for docs.xfce.org. Rule of thumb: Information that you would put into a man page should go to the Xfce Documentation. The remaining stuff goes here.

wayland_roadmap - [Overall Plans] add bit about xfwl4

kelnos@undisclosed.example.com (kelnos) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:13:15 +0000

Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap * * * * * * * * * ---------- Overall Plans For Xfce 4.20, the plan was to add preliminary support to Wayland to core components without losing X11 support. This doesn't mean that by the next major release an Xfce session on Wayland will offer all existing features, but we hope it will be minimally usable. We also intend to continue refining our applications to work acceptably on Wayland (those that already work or can be made t…

dev - [Thunar - Development Notes]

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:43:53 +0000

Thunar - Development Notes The following notes are intended to provide additional guidelines and suggestions to assist developers in working with the Thunar file manager. * How to build and run thunar from source * Testing DBUS Calls * How to temporarily disable gvfs * Using the gtk Inspector * Mouse/Keyboard button emulation * Testing remote locations * Working with gio/gvfs metadata * Mime Types * Test different locale * Watch file IO * Having fun with thumbnails * P…

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:36:50 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:23:16 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:23:16 +0000

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