{"repo":"crispinprojects/xfce4-wayland","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/crispinprojects/xfce4-wayland","clone":"git clone https://github.com/crispinprojects/xfce4-wayland.git","description":"Setting up and testing Xfce 4.20 with the labwc Wayland compositor","language":null,"stars":14,"topics":["calendar","gtk4","labwc","wayland","wayland-compositor","xfce4"],"license":"BSD-2-Clause","category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"Xfce4 Wayland (labwc) Update This is an old post and xfwl4 will be Xfce's Wayland compositor. Currently xfwm4 is the window manager for Xfce4 which uses the X11 backend. The xfwl4 Wayland compositor is under development and more information can be found here. The first preview release of xfwl4 was announced here. OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 offers an experimental Xfce session running on Wayland. The OpenSuse download page is here. This post is about using the alternative labwc Wayland compositor to run with Xfce. Set Up & Testing Using Debian 13 Trixie Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment and version 4.20 is in the Debian 13 Trixie package repositories. This github page shows how it can be setup using the labwc Wayland compositor. A screenshot of Xfce 4.20 Wayland is shown below. Notice that the Window Manager (WM) is the Wayland compositor called labwc and Xfce 4.20 is being used. Install Debian 13 Trixie Install Debian Trixie (testing) with no desktop just the standard utilities using the net installer. The iso called debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso can be downloaded from the web page below. When installing skip the root password section so that you are automatically added to the sudo group. Otherwise add yourself to the sudo group using the add user command. With a minimum install Debian 13 boots to a console terminal (tty1 by default). Here tty is short for teletype now more commonly called a terminal. Console Font Size Log into the console terminal and increase font size by","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/crispinprojects","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/crispinprojects/xfce4-wayland/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}