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

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[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Well worth a read. The video swapping between Wayland compositors with a single button like it was nothing is freaking magic.

Plasma 6 and Wayland looks so promising :D

[-] shockwave@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

This looks very cool indeed - I can't wait until KDE 6 is released!

[-] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this wayland only? (sorry for the super dumb question)

[-] MartinR@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago

As most of the underlying work is in QtWayland, I'd say: yes, it's Wayland only (not being the author nor an expert on display technology, so take my words with some caution). The blog post talks about some stuff that is impossible to do in X11 ("impossible" as in "would require massive changes to X11 itself, which no one wants to do").

[-] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The gap between X & Wayland grows. If only they just solved color management..

[-] 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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