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Registered: 2024-09-05

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Testing and Developing XFCE on Ubuntu?

I've been wanting to get into WM/DE development, and I was wondering how I would go about testing XFCE. I've read the build from source instructions (https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building), but I couldn't find any resources on how to test (i.e., change something, see it reflected in an environment?) XFCE without rebuilding it from source (and using it as my main WM). Are there any options for running it in QEMU or Docker? I'm on an M2 Macbook (Sonoma 14.6.1), with Ubuntu 22 running in UTM (Linux ubuntu 5.15.0-119-generic). I tried xfce-test (https://github.com/schuellerf/xfce-test), but had issues (I can post the logs if necessary, but it seems that the X11 server is running already? Even if I kill all processes and remove the lockfiles...) with it.

Any resources would be appreciated!