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[-] maggotbrain@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I understand your concern.

At this point, there are no plans to deprecate support for X11. So, if your config is working now with 4.20, it should still continue to work with Xfce 4.22. I can't say for sure how, of if, your concerns will be supported with xfwl4. I'd recommend trying xfwl4 when you are comfortable and file bugs against it if your current config doesn't work.

It's still to be determined if/how the next release of Xfce(4.22) will incorporate the work currently being done with xfwl4.

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submitted 2 months ago by maggotbrain@lemmy.world to c/xfce@lemmy.world

The first Xfwl4 Preview Release in now available.

xfwl4 is our brand new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Read the blog post from our core developer Brian Tarricone for details:

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A FAQ page is now available regarding the work Xfce/Brian is doing to build Xfwl4, an Xfce Wayland Compositor.

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submitted 7 months ago by maggotbrain@lemmy.world to c/xfce@lemmy.world

We, the Xfce team are excited to share some great news!

After careful consideration, we’ve decided on a meaningful way to use the generous donations from our community: funding longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

This initiative will utilize a significant portion of the project’s donated funds, but we believe it’s an important investment in Xfce’s future.

The goal is, that xfwl4 will offer the same functionality and behavior as xfwm4 does, or as much as possible considering the differences between X11 and Wayland. Using xfwl4 should feel just like using xfwm4 on X11. We even plan to reuse the existing xfwm4 configuration dialogs and xfconf settings to ensure a seamless transition.

Xfwl4 will not be based on the existing xfwm4 code. Instead, it will be written from scratch in rust, using smithay building blocks.

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[-] maggotbrain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure that I understand your comment.

Permissions and access still needs to be managed and abuse mitigated.

gitlab.xfce.org is a self-hosted instance of GitLab and we have to take preventative measures to deal with the creation of spam accounts. Contributors can either do that with SSO from an account they have at either gitlab.com or github.com. This does not require Xfce dev intervention.

If one does not want to use SSO, they can contact us on Matrix and an account will be created manually.

P.S. Xfce does not have any employees. We are all volunteers.

[-] maggotbrain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Hi. Thanks for sharing your tip. However, I'm not seeing the links to your screenshots.

Could you check your link formatting?

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submitted 2 years ago by maggotbrain@lemmy.world to c/xfce@lemmy.world

From the Xfce mailing list: "Dear Xfce users and contributors, I would like to bring to your attention a change regarding registration on our GitLab instance.

Due to increased spam activity and Google making reCAPTCHA more difficult to use, we, the core developers, have decided to suspend new registrations until further notice.

New users can still create accounts via SSO, meaning a GitLab.com or GitHub account will be required for new contributors.

As a tentative measure, newly created users will no longer need to request fork permissions, we hope this helps lower the entry barrier.

This change is planned to take effect on 2025-02-15 (Saturday). For more details, please refer to: https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/gitlab_signup.

Cheers, Andre Miranda"

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For additional details on the issue, see https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/88

e: FYI - updated plugin landed in Debian testing today(20250321) https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xfce4-weather-plugin

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