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QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2023

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Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more.

PrologueRight now if you restart pulseaudio your sound might cut out, restart NetworkManager and you lose your wifi, restart an X11 window manager and your decorations disappear.

But within a second it's all back to normal exactly where you left off with everything recovering fine.

This isn't true for display servers. If X11 restarts you're back at the login prompt. All drafts lost, games unsaved, work wasted.

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