Both don’t ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.

Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don’t know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.

LXQt’s newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri

https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    4·
    30 days ago

    For what it’s worth, they have experimental Wayland support. It’s an important distinction. For example, Cinnamon has experimental Wayland support IIRC and last time I tried setting up a lock screen on my ThinkPad (you know, for security purposes, since it’s a laptop and all) I wasn’t able to get one working.

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    2·
    30 days ago

    Sweet! Now that 4.20 is officially released it’s in Nixpkgs. That means xfce4-panel is 4.20 in unstable

    Might go back to Hyprland from KDE now that there’s a half-decent bar for Wayland compositors!

  • Zucca@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    30 days ago

    Yay! Wayfire.

    Been using Wayfire for quite some time now. I’m tempted to test out xfce.

    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      29 days ago

      Fedora, so most Gnome based distros. KDE as commented beside me. Arch-based EndeavourOS.

    • shadshack@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      30 days ago

      KDE Neon and kubuntu have Wayland as default. Just was trying them because I wanted Plasma 6. Took a bit of tweaking for a few things but I have all the things I need running fine with Wayland.

    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      I’m currently using sway/ mate on my chromebook. Ii like the idea of not switching between Wayland & x11 when switching DE’s

  • not_amm@lemmy.ml
    0·
    30 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s been updated recently, but take into account that LXQT doesn’t support global shortcuts yet ☝️

    It works well, but it’s still missing features; as they say: it’s experimental right now.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      2·
      30 days ago

      Openbox (LXQt’s wm under Xorg) does support global shortcuts.

      And labwc supports rc.xml so it should support global shortcuts as well.

  • chismoso@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    30 days ago

    sway, wayfire, river, hyprland and labwc are standalone wayland compositors. why we need desktop environments inside them!

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      2·
      29 days ago

      A compositor is normally a component in a DE, not a DE on its own. If when “standalone” it doesn’t provide a toolbar, launcher and maybe a terminal emulator (or at least call some generic wrapper to hook into one, something like xdg-terminal-exec) I wouldn’t consider it a DE.

      I mean… openbox is used in X11 desktop environments like LXDE… I don’t see why labwc should be treated like it cannot be a component of one.

      And river has almost as a mission statement to become more of a framework than a DE on its own… they even have the goal in the long term to remove things from it to make it more modular… it’s definitely not something intended to work standalone.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      29 days ago

      You don’t need a desktop environment, but it takes away a lot of config work if you want a full featured desktop.