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Brian Tarricone has announced
the first preview release of xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment.

After close to six months of work, I feel like it’s ready to get
some wider use, even though of course there will be bugs and missing
features. Think of this as an alpha release. […]

The end goal of xfwl4 is to behave as closely as possible to an
Xfce desktop running on an X server. Ideally a user could switch
between the two without even knowing there’s a difference. In reality,
of course, it won’t be quite that seamless, and there’s still more
work to be done to get as close as possible to that ideal. This is a
first solid cut at it, at the very least.