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Update

All customisation and configuration applications modified to customise Wayfire environment as appropriate

Improvements

  • Based on Debian bookworm release
  • Support for Raspberry Pi 5
  • Desktop now runs on the Wayfire Wayland compositing window manager on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 platforms; on X11 using the openbox window manager on older platforms
  • lxpanel replaced with new wf-panel-pi application when running Wayland; existing lxpanel plugins migrated; gpu performance and power plugins added
  • pcmanfm modified to use Wayland backend when running on Wayland
  • PipeWire used instead of PulseAudio as audio control subsystem; various changes made to volume control plugin to support this
  • NetworkManager used instead of dhcpcd as networking interface; various changes made to networking plugin to support this
  • Firefox browser added as alternative to Chromium; selection of default browser added to Raspberry Pi Configuration tool
  • WayVNC VNC server used instead of RealVNC when running on Wayland
  • All customisation and configuration applications modified to customise Wayfire environment as appropriate
  • grim used as screenshot tool instead of scrot when running on Wayland
  • eom image viewer used instead of gpicview
  • evince document viewer used instead of qpdfview
  • Chromium web browser updated to version 116
  • VLC media player updated to version 3.0.18
  • Magnifier program not available when running Wayland; Wayfire includes screen zoom capabilities
  • CustomPC and Wireframe removed from Bookshelf
  • Numerous small changes and bug fixes
  • Switched from raspberrypi-kernel to Debian-based kernel packaging (linux-image-rpi-*)
  • Switched from raspberrypi-bootloader to Debian based firmware packaging (raspi-firmware)
  • /boot mount point moved to /boot/firmware
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