Different state between sessions and within sessions

Posted Jan 29, 2026 9:13 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Different state between sessions and within sessions by farnz
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

What is probably closely related to the crash recovery state is the state required to restart for the purposes of upgrading the compositor without restarting all the applications too. That one might need a bit more information on the exact data types in use though so it can detect when something changed and needs migration between versions of the same data.