We need clients that can survive an X restart.

We need clients that can survive an X restart.

Posted Jan 20, 2007 0:31 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: We need clients that can survive an X restart. by jwb
Parent article: LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systems

Well I would think that compositing would make it easier to make things stateless, since windows and such are not rendered on the actual display but in off-screen buffers.

I'd think you'd just have to keep those off-screen buffers alive and when the main display comes back up then you "re-composite" them.

Maybe you need a different thread for the application management vs the part of the X server that does the actual rendering or something, I don't know.

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