LXQt 1.2 Released With Preliminary Wayland Session Support

[rafanelli]

I find this project very interesting. Given that a slim KDE setup uses about as much ram as XFCE, aaaand XFCE is pretty much the "resource friendly" FLOSS desktop, I think it is safe to say:

* Linux does not really have a resource friendly desktop

* GTK based envs are not resource friendly (how else can XFCE be on par with KDE?)

* Qt has the best features/resources ration -- yet there is no resource friendly desktop based on it, until...

...LXQt! (okay maybe Trinity, KDE3's continuation, also counts)

Now on top of that Wayland is already slightly less resource consuming than X11, and has potential to be a lot less resource consuming in the long run, a project like LXQt-on-Wayland (LWQt) makes a lot of sense.

Many people in this thread asked what compositor was used. IIRC it was Mutter, as mentioned here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LXQt/comments/s1extd/lwqt_wayland_de_2nd_demo/

Here's a discussion:

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10

[kpedersen]

Enlightenment's window manager works great on Wayland too.

Not production ready. They have a long way to go due to the aforementioned scope of a wayland compositor.

[cl333r]

32 years after wayland's release, we might finally be able to match x11 feature wise and replace it!

I was joking

[blackiwid]

Well that seem to stay for the long game then we need something like embedded exwm support for it

[unis_torvalds]

You mean 4th? After GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment.

5th if we count Weston!

[birdie]

Enlightenment's window manager works great on Wayland too.

Last time I tried Enlightenment a year ago it didn't have a Wayland session. Maybe it's a Fedora thing.

Your scathing sarcasm doesn't help the cause and FYI Wayland is progressing much faster lately and by 2040 should be well supported on all major Linux desktops.

Sounds about right.

[bug77]

That is true with DEs but he does have a point when it comes to writing compositors. Compared to X11 Window Managers, these things are massive undertakings and after 10 years of serious Wayland development, the ecosystem still only really has 3 viable contenders (the rest simply are not production ready).

• Sway
• Mutter
• Kwin

In the early days of X11, we had hundreds of novel WMs. Even more than we have today in fact.

This is potentially an issue for new DEs to appear because it is getting to the point where the compositor is more difficult than the rest of the DE itself.

Even adding KWin to that list is a bit generous, considering its current state.

But the fun begins when you start looking for Wayland native apps. Most of them still run via XWayland

[abu_shawarib]

There is Sway too, although not a full blown DE. Still, this comment of yours, like most others, is just pure FUD. Every single large software project takes years after its specifications are "penned" in order to materialize, you just never see the final result until it is ready especially in closed source software. Windows 11 weren't "penned" a year ago, you know.... Wayland, being such a large and critical component of the Linux Desktop, was fast enough.

No, it wasn't. It is one of the slowest transitions in history.

[Quackdoc]

Your scathing sarcasm doesn't help the cause and FYI Wayland is progressing much faster lately and by 2040 should be well supported on all major Linux desktops.

it will then take another 20 years for wayland features to half way catch up to x11 xD

[scottishduck]

Pencil in 2050 as the year of the wayland desktop!