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Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6 • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are ~~begging~~ beginning to work on Wayland support.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol – and so is the original developer of Xfce.

Normally, the project's experimental repository, codenamed "Romeo," is private, and code is only opened to the public once it reaches beta test stage.

Cinnamon 6.0, planned for Mint 21.3 this year, will feature experimental Wayland support, but he warns folks not to expect too much at this early stage:

It was the first release that defaulted to the then-new Unity desktop, and at the time, the Reg didn't rate it very highly.

As his new blog reveals, so is Red Hat developer Olivier Fourdan, who has been working on a rootful mode for XWayland.

What is possibly more interesting is that Monsieur Fourdan has a previous claim to fame: he is the original author of the Xfce desktop, which he started building way back in 1996, as he mentions in this 2009 interview.

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