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/
sway, wayfire, river, hyprland and labwc are standalone wayland compositors. why we need desktop environments inside them!
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!
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.
what distros are confident enough to enable it by default atm?
If it ships, Arch will have it immediately.
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.
Thanks for pointing that out. I think some are also supported in KWin:)
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
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!
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.
nice! I like to run xfce in no-desktop mode with xmonad for the WM. Maybe the same approach will work with sway.
