2010/12/14 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I was wondering whether we can find a better solution to the scenarios > where Wayland crashes. > You all know that for the X case, when it crashes, everything open is > lost, you need to re-login and you need to reopen your apps again. > Non-saved work will be lost. > > Is it possible to change this for wayland ? > So when it crashes : > 1. Opened apps will freeze automatically > 2. Wayland restarted > 3. Opened apps will be "reconnected" to the new instance of wayland > 4. Apps de-freezed and work is safe. plus: 5. Change wayland compositor on the fly.
For X, such thing is too hard to implement. For wayland , not so hard. BTW . wayland never crash, there is no such process called wayland, just client and compositor. > > Any comment on the feasibility of this ? > Do we need a new watchdog process for waylad only controlling this ? > Or something can be hooked starting from the kernel level ? > > > Thanks, > > i > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
