Release announcements for xfwl4 2026-08-11T01:15:47+02:00 xfwl4-4.21.1 2026-08-11T01:15:47+02:00 2026-08-11T01:15:47+02:00 Brian Tarricone brian@tarricone.org <pre><a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4">xfwl4</a> 4.21.1 is now available for download from <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha1">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha1</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha256">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha256</a> What is xfwl4? ============== Xfce's Wayland Compositor Website: <a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4">https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4</a> Release notes for 4.21.1 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Add RUSTSEC-2026-0244 to deny.toml ignore list - Update runtime deps in README - Fix lockscreen drawing - Fix various issues with the ext-session-lock-v1 protocol impl - Remove cgmath advisory ignore from deny.toml - Add tablet event printer app - Narrowing refactor - Fix no enter event to newly-mapped, under-pointer layer-shell surfaces - Move layer shell handler & related code to its own file - Refresh pointer focus when the scene graph changes underneath - Adjust updated ClickGrab focus location by geometry.loc - Several fixes for the wp-keyboard-shortcuts-inhibi protocol - Update comment about possible resize flickering - Fix cancelled window shrink not cancelling, and moving the window - Reset libinput properties to defaults when xfconf property is deleted - Implement key repeat for keyboard move and resize - Encapsulate more into KeyRepeat - Perform double-click action when easy-key held anywhere in window - Factor out the double click action handling - Encapsulate DoubleClickState from SSD code - Add input docs - Remove regex dep - Fix build with winit & x11 disabled - Bump xfconf to 0.2.2 - Bump xfconf to 0.2.1 and update for API changes - Move the render-time resize position fixup out of render time - Honor the draw-cursor flag on both screencopy impls - wlr-screencopy: send damage event if requested - Fix offset and flipping in wlr-screencopy - Fix timestamp reporting for wlr-screencopy - Fix safety violation (closing an OwnedFd's FD out from under it) - output test: use xdg_output.name, print deprecation warning for <v3 - Add 'done' event to xfce_output_v1 - Change opacity of window with horizontal titlebar scroll - Implement xfce-output-private-v1 - Rename xfce_output_manager_private_v1 - Only show unresponsive-window dialog if the window is still alive - Pass `--keyword=tr!` to xgettext - Specifying non-resizeable twice doesn't make it more non-resizeable - Ask user if they want to terminate unresponsive apps - Some language/word choice fixes for CONTRIBUTING.md - Ping xdg clients on close; kill if unresponsive after 3s - Update xfce4-settings version requirement - Fix decorations state getting out of sync after a disable/enable cycle - Tighten up window capabilities and gate operations - Rearrange and clean up struct members in Xfwl4Core - Remove obsolete/unneeded notes files - Make Xfwl4Core::clock private - Make Xfwl4Core::session private - Make Xfwl4Core::clients_with_windows private - Make Xfwl4Core::laptop_lid_state private - Make Xfwl4Core::is_running private - Make Xfwl4Core::socket_name and ::stop_signal private - Make Xfwl4Core::client_disconnect_tx private - Tighten up visibility of CyclingState members - Move wireframe and active_move_grab into new GrabState - Move pointer-related stuff into CursorState in cursor.rs - Move popup_manager and pending_windows to ShellProtocolDelegates - Move theme, font metrics, icon theme to new DecorationsResources - Remove cached DnD drag threshold & double click time/dist - Move window menu related fields to new WindowMenuState - Move input related fields in to a new InputState in input_handler.rs - Move xwayland_crash_history & xwayland from core to new XWaylandState - Move (wm|command)_shortcuts and suppressed_keys to new ShortcutsState - Move showing_desktop and output_change_sender to WorkspaceManager - Move BackendDebug from core to OutputsConfig - Move renderdoc into the backends - Simplify the place_filled() code - Remove obsolete TODO comment - Implement horizontal and vertical maximize - Offset zone by output coords when placing window for fill mode - Fix operator precedence in fill-window placement code - Move instead of resize on middle-click drag of window borders - Move SSD-related raise/focus behavior into the SSD code - Track window menu target window when it's up - Lower window on middle click to titlebar - Always raise window on left-click to decorations - Disable shade in window menu if window has CSDs - Remove window_can_focus() in favor of WindowElement::accepts_focus() - Implement Motif input mode hints for X11, watch for changes - Make use of Motif WM hints for X11 windows - Send proximity-out before clearing tablet tools - Bump smithay to 0a29aecf and fix API changes - Add support for X11 windows with icons in WmHints - Don't refocus on window remove unless the removed window had focus - Restore focus to the correct window when restacking from the window menu - Fix stacking order when moving a tree to a different layer - Allow any window in a tree to change stacking layer - Remove the 'activate' arg from WorkspaceManager::relocate_window() - Give focus to blocking modal in click-to-focus mode - Update window capabilities when X11 normal hints change - Hide SSD buttons that aren't relevant for a window - For modals/dialogs with no parent, stack them above other app windows - Properly normalize stacking order when setting window parent - Raise sibling windows in the correct order - Allow a modal window to block focus transfers to parent/siblings - Properly advertise and update xdg_toplevel.wm_capabilities - Be stricter about what windows can be minimized - Topmost focusable window must accept focus (obviously!) - Fix parent/child stacking in lower_window - Don't cycle unfocusable windows - Implement same-app/app-leader window switching shortcuts - Add WindowElement::root_ancestor() helper - Rename same_application_as() to same_client_as() - Downgrade key logging to trace - Fix flaky focus-follows-mouse - Fix layer-shell tooltips positioning incorrectly - Add support for assigning touchscreens to a monitor - Add tests for calibration matrix builder - Add support for pointer rotation and reflection - Fix incorrect application of pointer acceleration settings - Fix tablet devices not getting configured - xfce_input_device_list: send missing 'done' events - Fix pointer accel profile setting ordering in xfconf - clickgrab: offset element location by window decorations - Use correct workspace location for toplevels in ClickGrab - Eliminate side effects of tabwin startup latency - Trigger logout on close-window for some layer-shell surfaces - Update Cargo.lock - Bump smithay to 99e3ef07e16866e490a672ee49483ae9c4c6ebb7 - Implement a custom ClickGrab - Bump smithay to c0aa71dfea9ec5fc46b5f23a9b189451b7958080 - Fix incorrect expect() message - Fix stale focus on minimize and workspace switch - Trigger logout dialog on close-window shortcut with no focus - Fix focus handling around popup grabs - Use window icon at proper scale for SSDs - Update required libxfce4windowing version in the README - xfce-foreign-toplevel: fix raster icon size advertisement - Silence some debug prints in the xdg-toplevel-icon test - Handle BGR formats when converting shm data to images - x11: handle override-redirect restacking properly on configure_notify - x11: don't remove/drop window when wl_surface is destroyed - x11: implement XwmHandler::unminimize_request - x11: fully remove WindowElement on unmap - x11: fix focus handling for override-redirect windows - Don't let minimized windows lose their outputs - Fix minimize/unminimize on sticky windows not applying to all workspaces - Add missing move/resize requests to xfce-foreign-toplevel-management - Add more ignores to deny.toml - When unminimizing a window, restore its children too - Fix spurious xfce-foreign-toplevel state notify - Remove stale TODO - Don't allow WindowProps::is_minimized to get out of sync - Store minimized & fullscreen state on WindowProps - Eliminate XdgSurfaceProps and move contents to WindowProps - Make toplevel_changed less ugly - Don't clear demands-attention when the blink ends - Fix empty outputs on map - Fix output enter/leave tracking - Fix activated state reporting - Implement xfce-foreign-toplevel-management-private-v1 - Deactivate workspace active window when switching to another workspace - Simplify activate_window() - Format timestamps in logs in local time - Fix cairo scaling - Fix _NET_WM_ICON pixel format conversion - Bump anyhow crate version - Fix tabwin never getting its 'active' state set - Move icons and image loading to packed ARGB32, premultiplied - Send correctly-sized previews and window icons to the tabwin - Minor refactor of the new icon code - Avoid cloning IconSource into WindowDecorations - Avoid integer overflow & guard against huge _NET_WM_ICONs - Unify icon/image holding types - Fix _NET_WM_ICON parsing - Write a proper calloop::EventSource for the glib::MainContext - Refactor KeyboardConfig - Fix numlock restore on startup (and on keymap change) - Shut down when session app exits - Terminate dbus session bus if we started one ourselves - Add a --session option to run a particular command on startup - Start the dbus session bus on startup if not running - Run the cargo build more in-line with how meson configures things - Don't override user-set RUSTFLAGS - Remove note about force-pushing from README - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese xfwl4-4.21.0 2026-06-22T00:41:14+02:00 2026-06-22T00:41:14+02:00 Brian Tarricone brian@tarricone.org <pre><a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4">xfwl4</a> 4.21.0 is now available for download from <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha1">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha1</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha256">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwl4/4.21/xfwl4-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha256</a> What is xfwl4? ============== Xfce's Wayland Compositor Website: <a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4">https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwl4</a> Release notes for 4.21.0 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Initial release