QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs (blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)

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In this blog post, David Edmundson describes how applications will handle a compositor crash in Wayland.

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[-] theHamsta@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Sina @MartinR xorg supported exchanging the compositor before (kwin --replace). I believe xorg didn't support clients surviving a crash of xorg itself.

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