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Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)

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Note: Xface wiki doesn't explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support.

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I agree that the Xf in Xfce ( originally XFCE ) stands for XForms ( or did originally ). You do not think that the X in XForms stands for X11 though?

XForms is a port of the Forms library ( originally a GL based SGI toolkit ) to X11. I do not know for sure but it seems pretty obvious that the X in XForms stands for X11.

Once we all move to Wayland, the Xfce name will carry quite a bit of history in its name. I kind of like that.