Wayland hot-replace server?

[Marty Jack]

On 03/06/2011 12:41 PM, nerdopolis wrote:
> Hi.
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> I just want to bring this up for early consideration:
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> It seems that many things in Wayland will be determined by they type of compositor server you are running, such as if you want to have a tiling window manager in Wayland, or one that has other features.
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> My question is that will users be able to have the ability to change their Wayland servers on the fly? not only would such a thing allow the users to change functionality, but it will also help in the case if the Wayland server goes down, where the session is not lost.
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> Will this have to happen in the apps themselves? If so, how would the apps "know" that the socket (or maybe even a new socket) is available for reconnect?
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An interesting point.  A parallel to <window-manager> --replace, and probably something that users would want to do while they are experimenting with different looks.