Proposal to create a welcome app for XFCE

[Alistair Buxton]

On Wed, 17 Sept 2025 at 08:44, Alexander Schwinn <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:

> The README.md claims to use some custom wlroots based wayland compositor
> and something called "Merengue" .. not clear to me if that is only
> relevant for the application itself, or as well for the generated code.
> The generated Xfce GUI's are supposed to as well run on X11 for the time
> beeing. Does Cambalache support that?


See https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2021/05/18/merengue-cambalaches-workspace/

Cambalache is ultimately just an editor for GtkBuilder XML files. The same
thing that GLADE outputs.

Merengue is how it shows you a preview of the app you are working on. Using
a Wayland compositor like this avoids having to mix Gtk3 and Gtk4 in the
same program, which is apparently a known problem with GLADE.

My question would be whether Cambalache itself will run under X11,
especially on Nvidia drivers. Embedding Wayland inside X11 always seems to
be a problem. This will depend entirely on the compositor implementation.
If it is based on wlroots then there is a good chance it won't work.

-- 
Alistair Buxton
a.j.buxton at gmail.com
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