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releng:wayland_roadmap [2025/10/22 23:19] – [Applications] Update screenshooter remarks andreldmreleng:wayland_roadmap [2026/01/28 13:15] (current) – Update according to xfwl4 announcement andreldm
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   * Do not depend on XWayland   * Do not depend on XWayland
     * No xsettings     * No xsettings
-  * Use wlroots over libmutter+  * Use smithay over wlroots and libmutter for our compositor
     * keep the possibility to run xfdesktop and xfce4-panel as separate components     * keep the possibility to run xfdesktop and xfce4-panel as separate components
     * Prevent dependency on libgnome-desktop     * Prevent dependency on libgnome-desktop
     * xfce4-panel and xfdesktop have been ported to Wayland assuming our compositor will be based on wlroots.     * xfce4-panel and xfdesktop have been ported to Wayland assuming our compositor will be based on wlroots.
-    * We plan to port xfwm4 to Wayland using wlroots but it will only be for Xfce 4.22 at best.+    * We plan to keep xfwm4 as X11-only, for Wayland a brand new compositor called xfwl4 was created.
   * Keep X11 compatibility for the foreseeable future   * Keep X11 compatibility for the foreseeable future
     * Nvidia support to Wayland is still problematic, one more reason to keep X11 backward compatibility (nouveau driver usually is slower)     * Nvidia support to Wayland is still problematic, one more reason to keep X11 backward compatibility (nouveau driver usually is slower)
     * Wayland compositors which were written from scratch like Weston or sway will never run as a x11 window manager. But others which started as x11 window managers such as kwin or mutter still keep their x11 window management code     * Wayland compositors which were written from scratch like Weston or sway will never run as a x11 window manager. But others which started as x11 window managers such as kwin or mutter still keep their x11 window management code
     * FreeBSD has decent [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/|support]] for Wayland, OpenBSD is still [[https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2023-matthieu-wayland-openbsd.pdf|working on supporting]] Wayland     * FreeBSD has decent [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/|support]] for Wayland, OpenBSD is still [[https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2023-matthieu-wayland-openbsd.pdf|working on supporting]] Wayland
 +    * We will archive this by having both a window manager (xfwm4/X11) and a compositor (xfwl4/wayland)
  
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 === Core components === === Core components ===
  
-This table reflects the current status of what's released as 4.19 or git master.+This table reflects the current status of what's released as 4.21 or git master.
  
 ^ Component ^ Wayland Support ^ Remarks ^ ^ Component ^ Wayland Support ^ Remarks ^
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 | xfconf | yes | | | xfconf | yes | |
 | [[#xfdesktop]] | yes | See below | | [[#xfdesktop]] | yes | See below |
-| xfwm4 | no | |+| xfwm4 | not planned | xfwl4 will be its Wayland counterpart |
 | [[#xfce4-power-manager]] | yes | See below | | [[#xfce4-power-manager]] | yes | See below |
 | tumbler | yes | | | tumbler | yes | |
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   * [[https://frontpagelinux.com/articles/a-deep-dive-into-the-wayland-protocol-for-linux|A deep dive into the wayland protocol]]   * [[https://frontpagelinux.com/articles/a-deep-dive-into-the-wayland-protocol-for-linux|A deep dive into the wayland protocol]]
   * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/commit/57410e2dffde5271443809a0dbd0280be262ba47|Check if current display is a wayland display]]   * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/commit/57410e2dffde5271443809a0dbd0280be262ba47|Check if current display is a wayland display]]
 +  * [[https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html|Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor]]
  
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