Re: Wayland Woes and a Couple of Leap 16 Fixes

26.07.2026 10:29, David C Rankin wrote:
> On 7/24/26 1:06 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> Clients using major GUI toolkits will likely get it for free; clients
>> implementing Wayland directly will need to explicitly add support.
> 
> That's kind of where I see the Achilles's heel. If you use a desktop
> that isn't Plasma or Gnome, session restoration isn't something that
> will "just work",

You apparently believe that with X11 it "just works" by virtue of it 
being X11 and not Wayland. You are mistaken. It does not.

With X11 clients need to be written to actually save and restore their 
state (including screen position) and if you want something more 
elaborate, clients need to be written to use XSMP to talk to session 
manager. Exactly the same as with Wayland - it does not magically "just 
works", it needs to be explicitly supported and implemented.

The only difference is that X11 exists for almost 40 years and so this 
has already been implemented for the clients you are interested in.