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dejan

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XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

I know Wayland support is new and unpolished but today I finally decided to upgrade to Fedora 43, and gave XFCE/Wayland a try. XFCE panels have window decorations in Wayland session. Is there any way to configure desktop properly so I can have similar experience that I have on X11? I turned back to X11 XFCE that works without any issues, but will definitely give Wayland a try again in few months.

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

Which compositor did you use for this test?

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dejan

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

Which compositor did you use for this test?

To be honest I do not know - the default one I suppose that is picked by the xfce4-wayland-session ??

Which one do you recommend?

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

You need a wlroots compositor for it to work properly, or one that supports wlr-* protocols, which often amounts to the same thing. The default compositor is labwc, but fedora may have changed this when packaging xfce4-session. Another commonly used compositor is wayfire.

How do you start the xfce session on wayland?

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eriefisher

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

According to the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce
It looks like Labwc is the default but you need to install it. I use Labwc with Xfce and I do not see much difference as far as appearance between X and Wayland. The only differences are the "stuff" that still need work on Wayland. For instance, window images in the workspaces plugin. It works fine in X11 but in Wayland I only get the names ie: workspace 1 and so on. There is a few other thing being worked on for compatibility but for the most part it works great.

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dejan

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

Indeed - I have just tried to find which one is used, and found this:

XFCE4_SESSION_COMPOSITOR=labwc --config-dir /home/bmll/.config/xfce4/labwc --config /home/bmll/.config/xfce4/labwc/rc.xml --session xfce4-session

So, it seems labwc is used on my Fedora 43 workstation.

Added later 02 min 14 s:

How do you start the xfce session on wayland?

Through GDM. When I installed the xfce-wayland-session package GDM added "XFCE (Wayland)" option that I picked.

Added later 1 h 53 min 13 s:
OK. I have modified the xfce4-wayland session to use wayfire and i got the same. Wayfire shows window decorations around XFCE4 panels, which is really annoying. Also I can't drag them to their proper positions... However it looks better with wayfire.

Tamaranch

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Re: XFCE Wayland (Fedora 43)

Could you run the panel in a terminal and give the output:

xfce4-panel -q
xfce4-panel

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