@jloc0

Well, a few months ago, we made an executive decision to actually pay one of our core devs to focus on building #Wayland support into #Xfce. Brian has done a great deal of work to make this happen over the past 3ish months.

Don't quote me on this; but, we _might_ enter public beta for #xfwl4 later this year.
I don't expect it to be ready for our 4.22 release. But, good progress is being made.

@jloc0

Oh wow! That is really interesting to hear.
#xfwl4 is not even in public beta yet.

Thanks for living on the cutting edge.

#Xfce #Wayland

@GIMP

I mean, there isn't really any natural law that says there can't be a #Wayland compositor that runs on #EGA hardware.

It would have the same chunky-to-planar-conversion overhead that complicated attempts to port #Doom to the #Amiga, but it's not impossible.

#retrocomputing

How to run the snap version of Visual Studio Code on Wayland? #2404 #snap #wayland #visualstudiocode

https://askubuntu.com/q/1565453/612

How to run the snap version of Visual Studio Code on Wayland?

The snap version of VSCode looks extremely blurry as shown in this screenshot. Click image to enlarge it. I'm using a Wayland session with fractional scaling at 150% on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS. I've tr...

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Linux desktop news feels split in two right now.

On the one hand, Wayland is finally getting long-needed session restore, fractional scaling work is moving forward, Linux gaming just pushed past 5% on Steam, and GitHub had to retreat after backlash over Copilot pull request "tips”.

On the other, the office suite world is a proper mess: Euro-Office has launched, ONLYOFFICE has suspended its Nextcloud partnership over licensing and attribution claims, and the LibreOffice ecosystem is locked in a very public fight between TDF and Collabora.

This is what happens when open source becomes strategically important again. Governance, sovereignty, trademarks, attribution, and control all come to the surface.

Are we seeing healthy competition, or the start of fragmentation that could hurt Linux users?

https://youtu.be/eweMlWewcVg

#Linux #OpenSource #LibreOffice #OnlyOffice #Nextcloud #Wayland #GitHub #LinuxGaming #DigitalSovereignty

What is happening to our Office Suites?! - Linux Weekly News

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How to run snap version of Visual Studio Code on wayland? #2404 #snap #wayland #visualstudiocode

https://askubuntu.com/q/1565453/612

How to run snap version of Visual Studio Code on wayland?

The snap version of vscode looks extremely blurred as shown in this screenshot. I'm using a Wayland session with fractional scaling at 150% on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS. I've tried to use the ozone-platform-

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Je me demandais si, sur Fedora et wayland aujourd'hui, on pouvait comme par le passé changer l' icône du coin supérieur gauche qui est le coin actif.
Trou de mémoire…
Si quelqu'un⋅e sait.

#Fedora #Wayland

Let me get this straight: The only reason why I can't mirror my screens on most #wayland compositors is that wlr-output-management does not contain a property for screen mirroring?

Why is this not a feature????

I know wl-mirror exists but it's really not that good. The battery drain is real.

#niri #wlroots #sway

(more Linux news in previous posts)

Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released

A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-AIE-SIG-NVIDIA-AI

2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2D-CAD-Design-GNOME-2026

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mesa-26-0-4-open-source-graphics-drivers-released-for-linux/

Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.48

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-1-Linux-Patches-2026

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32

OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.1-Released

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Wine #Steam #CentOS #2DCAD #Mesa #Wayland #LinuxKernel #IntelNPU #OpenRazer #FosseryTech

Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver

Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms.

If Wayland is so good, then why aren't there Wayland 2-11? Checkmate, Atheists!

#Linux #Wayland