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.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    On the contrary, I have a 1440p 120Hz primary monitor and a 4k 60Hz vertical side monitor, and I can only seem to make that setup work with Wayland. I’ve been using only Wayland this whole time as a result.

    As for all your issues with it:

    • I’m able to record my screen just fine with multiple applications. Are you trying to write your own screen recorder, or use existing ones?
    • I have not had any issues with fullscreen. If anything, it works better for me than Windows. (I can’t compare it to X11 because I can’t use X11.)
    • I don’t really understand what you mean by having a clipboard. Do you not have one on Wayland somehow?
    • Hotkeys seem to work for me, so I’m confused here too.
    • I’m not too sure what you mean by “manufacture inputs” but my keyboard supports programmable macros and that works for me, though I believe that works by flashing the keyboard instead of through software.
    • Programs I use often use their own themes regardless of Wayland/X11 so the client-side decorations doesn’t matter nearly as much to me. I would like it to be more consistent, but that’s on both sides (Wayland+application devs) to figure out.

    The rest of these aren’t issues I’ve had to deal with at all, but I can see them coming up. Wayland does have some issues, but nothing I’ve come across that’s major enough to bother me all that much.