--- title: Xfwl4's First Preview Release – Brian Tarricone | daily.dev description: Brian Tarricone announces the first preview (alpha) release of xfwl4, Xfce's new Wayland compositor, after six months of sponsored development. The goal is to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/xfwl4-s-first-preview-release-brian-tarricone-z1ucbqhw3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Xfwl4's First Preview Release – Brian Tarricone | daily.dev og:description: Brian Tarricone announces the first preview (alpha) release of xfwl4, Xfce's new Wayland compositor, after six months of sponsored development. The goal is to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/xfwl4-s-first-preview-release-brian-tarricone-z1ucbqhw3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z1uCbqHw3.png og:image:alt: Xfwl4's First Preview Release – Brian Tarricone og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Xfwl4's First Preview Release – Brian Tarricone **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Brian Tarricone announces the first preview (alpha) release of xfwl4, Xfce's new Wayland compositor, after six months of sponsored development. The goal is to replicate the Xfce X11 desktop experience on Wayland as closely as possible. Known limitations include missing settings dialogs for mouse/touchpad and workspaces, no screen margins, broken pager thumbnails, limited taskbar window state control, missing app-switching keyboard shortcuts, and apps unable to restore window positions. Source tarball, issue tracker, and git repository links are provided. A blog series on the implementation is planned. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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