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XFCE is finally getting a serious port to Wayland but that's not at the cost of the X11 side, Wayland will be handled in a separate code base keeping the X11 side free to be maintained. With the new Wayland compositor being called XFWL4 and X11 remaining as XFWM4
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XFCE is finally getting a serious port to Wayland but that's not at the cost of the X11 side, Wayland will be handled in a separate code base keeping the X11 side free to be maintained. With the new Wayland compositor being called XFWL4 and X11 remaining as XFWM4
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