XFCE 4.20, Wayland (labwc), GDM, Linux Lite 7.2

As XFCE has drawn ever closer to full Wayland support with XFCE 4.20 I decided to begin testing its functionality on Linux Lite 7.2. To get XFCE 4.20 I used the Xubuntu experimental PPA.

https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/experimental

I was pleasantly surprised by a smooth and successful installation. Afterwards I used Lite’s package manager to install labwc which went smoothly as well. Next I installed GDM and made it the default. I rebooted and logged into Xfce Session (Wayland) and all went well.

The LibreWolf web browser worked perfectly.

Microsoft Edge performed nicely which is important to me with all the cross platform networking stuff I get involved in.

Lite Tweaks displayed and performed all the functions not requiring root as I expected. Later I ran it from the terminal with sudo -E and performed all the functions from the GUI only reporting a pipe error for each as they ran but not effecting the function.

System Info worked fine.

Alacritty functioned perfectly.

Remmina worked fine only losing a tiny part of the GUI (disconnect option at the bottom of the SFTP window) but using the X button to close the window raised a dialogue to disconnect.

GDM worked perfectly.

Package manager (synaptic) worked and displayed fine from the terminal with sudo -E as did Lite-Updates, Lite-Sources and Lite-Software. I am working on a socket script now that will eliminate the need for the terminal and sudo -E for the Lite-specific applications, but I’d like to get wayfire working first. Been waiting for this for quite a while.

Test Continuation Part 2, Lite Updates, GIMP 3.0

Test Continuation Part 3, GUI Application Root Access

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