**Libxfce4windowing ** is an abstraction library that attempts to present windowing concepts (screens, toplevel windows, workspaces, etc.) in a windowing-system-independent manner.

Currently, X11 is fully supported, via libwnck. Wayland is partially supported, through various Wayland protocol extensions. However, the full range of operations available on X11 is not available on Wayland, due to missing features in these protocol extensions.

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• libxfce4windowing 4.20.7 released (2026/08/11 00:00)

  libxfce4windowing 4.20.7 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.7.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.7.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4windowing/4.20/libxfce4windowing-4.20.7.tar.bz2?sha256 What is libxfce4windowing? ========================== Windowing concept abstraction library for X11 and Wayland Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/start Release notes for 4.20.7 ======================== - Add xfw_monitor_get_edid() - Support the xfce-output-private-v1 protocol - build: Add missing check for bind_textdomain_codeset - Implement xfce-foreign-toplevel-management-private-v1 - Remove G_GNUC_CONST - gobject-linter: Fix property_enum_coverage - gobject-linter: Fix missing_implementation - gobject-linter: Fix use_g_steal_pointer - gobject-linter: Fix g_param_spec_static_strings - gobject-linter: Fix use_clear_functions - gobject-linter: Fix matching_declare_define - gobject-linter: Fix property_switch_exhaustiveness - cppcheck: Fix invalidPrintfArgType_sint warning in test code - Fix includes that should use double quotes - cppcheck: Fix knownConditionTrueFalse - cppcheck: Fix unreadVariable - cppcheck: Fix invalidPrintfArgType_sint - scan-build: Update false positive file after clang version bump - Fix fallback icons for pixmaps path - Translation Updates: Czech, Slovak

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