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A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
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Add Xfce Terminal to terminal emulators #76

Closed onkoe closed 2 years ago

onkoe commented 2 years ago

Xfce Terminal works flawlessly on Wayland sessions. It's also easy to configure graphically despite offering dozens of different options.

natpen commented 2 years ago

This list/repository is intended to be for software that's wayland-native in some way. As far as I understand, Xfce is based on the VTE terminal, which has nothing wayland-native to it. I wasn't able to find source code for the xfce terminal though, so I'm open to feedback if my information on it is incorrect!

onkoe commented 2 years ago

I'm not particularly informed on this, but IIRC, VTE is just a library that serves as the interface for GNOME Terminal. It has a few Wayland-specific patches, but since GNOME Terminal is just a GTK application anyways, it tends to run fine on Wayland without much help.

The same goes for Xfce Terminal - it has relatively few patches related to Wayland, but runs just fine without any Xwayland nonsense. In my view, it should hit any guidelines you may have for this repo. :)

By the way, you can see the Xfce Terminal source here: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal

natpen commented 2 years ago

Okay cool! Thank you for explaining that. In that case I think it's a great addition - thank you for submitting it!