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The experimental wayland support is looking pretty cool. Looks like there's been quite a bit of progress towards it in this release.
This will finally be the year of the Wayland desktop!
I don't think it does virtual desktops with labwc still; but when it does, labwc is as good a replacement for xfwm as any, IMHO.
labwc can do virtual desktops; there's a desktop switcher, and the window switcher is aware of windows only in the current desktop -- but I can't figure out how to query window-per-desktop information programmatically otherwise. waybar, wlrctl, as well as xfce-panel don't seem to have access to that info either. Still waiting for accomodations with respect to some wayland extension, I suppose.