The new xdg-session-management protocol finally brings session saving and restoration to Wayland, eliminating a long-standing annoyance for Linux users and paving the way for a smoother desktop experience.

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.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    I just fixed a long standing problem I had. My mouse would stop clicking.

    I installed several USB distros just to try the mouse and they all failed.

    Then I tried my mouse on other computers and it was fine.

    It was the stupid keyboard! I swapped keyboards and its all good now. Apparently keyboards don’t like stuff like drinks falling in between the keys and such.