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

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.

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"

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

In preparation for some other documentation that I am currently working on, I "accidentally" managed to build a page of Xfce keyboard shortcuts for the xfwm4 window manager and some default application shortcuts.

Perhaps you will find it useful.

August marks the fourth month of development for Xubuntu 24.10, “Oracular Oriole.” With the arrival of many Xfce 4.19 components, our next release is beginning to take shape. Let’s look at how things are progressing in this month’s Xubuntu development update.