XFCE 4.20

[predatorbassg]

Good morning guys.
XFCE 4.20 was released.
https://www-new.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800

[Eadwine Rose]

Moving to requests area, where it should be.

[DukeComposed]

XFCE 4.20 was released.

Here's the quiet part said loud:

The major focus during this development cycle was the preparation of the codebase to be ready for Wayland. So that we meanwhile have experimental Wayland support for most components.

Slowly but surely, progress continues.

[wolfganp]

There are also tons of improvements on Thunar, multi display profiles and the config utilities.

[CharlesV]

+1 The improvements appear to be pretty nice.

[Stevo]

We tend to let Debian get it into Sid first, since we've been burned before when Debian decided to change library versions on us when we ported it ASAP from a PPA.

[dolphin_oracle]

this one looks like it may need a little more testing time than previous releases. there are changes to how appearance sets dark themes, saved session support, xfconf output, and possibly dropping light-locker support in favor of pushing all screen locking settings into xfce4-screensaver. we will have to dig in a little to see how much dropping light-locker really drops light-locker. by default mx23 doesn't use light-locker, but I don't want to break user's systems either.

one thing for certain, Xfce will be on X for quite a while yet.

[CharlesV]

Makes perfect sense, and LOVE that everyone takes the time and energy to do the testing and is careful and watching out. Thank you!

[Kermit the Frog]

I tried to install either downloading and from source but both were unsuccessful, some packages needed to be higher versions, glib and xfce4-dev-tools and some others ...

@dolphin_oracle will that affect other screen-lockers, too? Say, removing the xfce4-screensaver and installing i3lock or xtrlock (etc.) would be possible ?

[Eadwine Rose]

will that affect other screen-lockers, too? Say, removing the xfce4-screensaver and installing i3lock or xtrlock (etc.) would be possible ?

If you try that on a scratch install, you will find out soon enough, right?