Both don’t ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.
Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don’t know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.
LXQt’s newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri
https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/
LXQT on niri could be quite interesting
Support might be a strong word.
why would they need inferior scientists?
I’m so excited for Wayland xfce but my laptop is really old and probably cant run Wayland as well as x11.
I don’t think a Wayland compositor needs any more resources than a window manager plus X server.
That’s actually fucking rad.
Great news hope to see Wayland being more popular
Have been on Walyand for a year now, no problems except for a weird big in Inscape so thst runs in X11 mode.
Oh interesting I am currently struggeling with inkscape on KDE plasma wayland
Can I ask you what your bur was?
Yay! Wayfire.
Been using Wayfire for quite some time now. I’m tempted to test out xfce.
I’m seeing a screenshot of lxqt Labwc and I’m seriously considering trying it.
Might push to run Sway + XFCE on my laptop, opposed to i3 + XFCE
I’m currently using sway/ mate on my chromebook. Ii like the idea of not switching between Wayland & x11 when switching DE’s
When I first started using KDE and Sway I was so used to the Xfce apps that I installed the xfce4-goodies, running on top of Wayland. So fucking good memories.
nice! I like to run xfce in no-desktop mode with xmonad for the WM. Maybe the same approach will work with sway.
what distros are confident enough to enable it by default atm?
If it ships, Arch will have it immediately.
KDE Neon and kubuntu have Wayland as default. Just was trying them because I wanted Plasma 6. Took a bit of tweaking for a few things but I have all the things I need running fine with Wayland.
i was talking about xfce/lxqt…
Fedora, so most Gnome based distros. KDE as commented beside me. Arch-based EndeavourOS.
what about xfce/lxqt?
Sweet! Now that 4.20 is officially released it’s in Nixpkgs. That means xfce4-panel is 4.20 in unstable
Might go back to Hyprland from KDE now that there’s a half-decent bar for Wayland compositors!
Sweet! Now that 4.20 is officially released it’s in Nixpkgs. That means xfce4-panel is 4.20 in unstable
Might go back to Hyprland from KDE now that there’s a half-decent bar for Wayland compositors!
I don’t know if it’s been updated recently, but take into account that LXQT doesn’t support global shortcuts yet ☝️
It works well, but it’s still missing features; as they say: it’s experimental right now.
Openbox (LXQt’s wm under Xorg) does support global shortcuts.
And labwc supports rc.xml so it should support global shortcuts as well.
But its really hard to config, i dont know the codes or format
If you can’t edit XML use nice GUI lxhotkey or obkey instead
Thanks for pointing that out. I think some are also supported in KWin:)
XFCE only mostly though. Stuff like tray and xfwm (the window manager) not yet.
