On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:10:42AM -0400, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > I've just filed a bug against gnome-shell: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367666 > > Yes, I commented in this bug. > > Basically, imho, gnome-shell on Wayland is not worse than the X server on X11. > > Wayland and X11 do not have the same architecture (if they did, I guess we would not need need Wayland) > > In X11, if the X server dies, the entire session goes along with it, whereas the window manager is just an X11 client, so it can be restarted at will. When restarting the window manager, the other X11 applications connected to the X server can continue to work as the X server remains the same. > > In Wayland, if the Wayland compositor dies, the entire session goes along with it. In GNOME, gnome-shell is the window manager and the Wayland compositor, which means that losing gnome-shell means losing the session, just like losing the X server means losing the session in X11. Are there statistics about the number of X server crashes in Fedora? >From my experience, the X server crashes far less often than gnome-shell. -- Sébastien -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
