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I cant confirm. I followed all your steps but works as excepted... no freezes!
Thank you for attempting to replicate it. I will now try to reinstall and retest it since it seems to affect only my system. I will update my original post with the new outcome post-reinstall. Sorry for wasting your time
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The Xfce developers have refreshed their roadmap to incorporate Wayland protocol support. The plan now includes initial support for Wayland in the core components of the forthcoming major release of Xfce 4.20 while continuing to support X11.
Previously, the issue of maintaining backward compatibility with X11 was discussed, but no consensus was reached. But it has now been decided that X11 support will not be discontinued in the foreseeable future........
Has there been any indications on what 'the plan is for 15.1'
Will X or Wayland be the default?
Can build XFCE be built so that it supports both X and Wayland or is it a compile time thing?
My 'belief' at the moment assuming 15.1 drops sometime in '25, is that I won't be ready to make the move to Wayland. It still have a lot of old hardware I am using and I lake money and time replace it, and it works. I also have a lot of workflow and personal stuff that is somewhat tied to X. Although most of scripts are using GTK so it might not be real hard to migrate.
I would however be somewhat frustrating if I had to do my own XFCE builds to have that on X11. I suppose I could just stay on 15.0's XFCE 4.16 and use the Slackbuilds from that unmodified.
Has there been any indications on what 'the plan is for 15.1'
You will get the best indication of any plans for next upcoming official release by looking at the ChangeLog.txt for slackware-current.
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Will X or Wayland be the default?
However, when it comes to Slackware, what do you mean by "default"? Slackware ships with a number of different window managers and desktop environments. The latest version (15.0) has also shipped both Xorg and Wayland.
During installation, there will be a dialog asking about default window manager for X, that is a choice from the user installing Slackware. But this only applies to Xorg when started with "startx".
A non-default configuration in Slackware is to boot to runlevel 4. That might give you graphical a login manager which allows you to choose between different window managers and destktop environments in Xorg or Wayland. My guess is that the default choice there will be whatever the developers of SDDM prefer as SDDM probably will continue to be the default login manager in Slackware.
Thanks guys. With two decades of Slackware I well aware of the -current change log. I also know that it frequently lags well behind what is really cooking, and was curious if the core team might disclose some thoughts, about what "when its done" *might* end up looking like this time. For example might a fresh install point runlevel 5 at weston.
Additionally my question on Xfce specifically is not 'will 4.20' still support X but will the same binary distribution be able to support X and Wayland, or would we need two sets of packages or perhaps two sets of 'select packages' like xfwm4.
This is basically what started with the shift of xfce to gtk3, and loss of a proper consistent gui and theming support, but now accelerated by gtk4 or libadwaita. The truth is gtk only really is developed for and by gnome. So this is why xfce needs to make a choice now. To become gnome or blaze a new path.
I never have liked the broken feel of xfce past 4.12 due to its reliance on gtk3, and I stayed on xfce 4.12 for slackware 15.0.
This is basically what started with the shift of xfce to gtk3, and loss of a proper consistent gui and theming support, but now accelerated by gtk4 or libadwaita. The truth is gtk only really is developed for and by gnome. So this is why xfce needs to make a choice now. To become gnome or blaze a new path.
I never have liked the broken feel of xfce past 4.12 due to its reliance on gtk3, and I stayed on xfce 4.12 for slackware 15.0.
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