Huh. I’d been wondering why GNOME crashing tended to exit the whole session in beginning in Ubuntu 17.10(ish); now I know. Is this true for all Wayland-backed desktops?
Of course not. It’s pretty common to run panels and whatever other bits of UI in separate processes. So e.g. if the panel crashes in Sway, the whole desktop won’t crash. I’m not sure about KDE, but probably kwin_wayland only does window management and not all the shell functionality? Also I don’t think it loads arbitrary user installed extensions that can do whatever with the shell…
Huh. I’d been wondering why GNOME crashing tended to exit the whole session in beginning in Ubuntu 17.10(ish); now I know. Is this true for all Wayland-backed desktops?
Of course not. It’s pretty common to run panels and whatever other bits of UI in separate processes. So e.g. if the panel crashes in Sway, the whole desktop won’t crash. I’m not sure about KDE, but probably
kwin_waylandonly does window management and not all the shell functionality? Also I don’t think it loads arbitrary user installed extensions that can do whatever with the shell…Thank you for this. I’d been wondering what ended up replacing Bonobo in Gnome.