After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed

submitted by cm0002 to linux 111 points | 14 comments https://itsfoss.com/news/wayland-session-management/ > There is a new merge on the Wayland GitLab repo. This new merge (of an old pull request) adds xdg-session-management protocol to Wayland. This is a big development and certainly a feature Linux users will enjoy. > > As per the brief message in merge request: > >> For a variety of cases it’s desirable to have a method for negotiating the restoration of previously-used states for a client’s windows. This helps for e.g., a compositor/client crashing (definitely not due to bugs) or a backgrounded client deciding to temporarily destroy its surfaces in order to conserve resources. >> >> This protocol adds a method for managing such negotiation and is loosely based on the Enlightenment “session recovery” protocol which has been implemented and functional for roughly two years. > > In simpler words, session recovery is finally coming to Wayland.