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Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened. (floss.social)
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Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5C7uct72cxGnEQJn6LqdSn

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[-] TheStroyer@mastodon.social 14 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social the future is now! I like how many cool technologies emerge from wayland

[-] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

@TheStroyer @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Th combination Wayland/KWin is killing it. We recently had Arjen Hiemstra showing how you can access a remote desktop:

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

Something that was seemingly destined to die with X11.

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