dwl-patches/patches/wayland-socket-handover

Description

When your Wayland compositor crashes, your entire session dies with it. This patch allows your session to survive a restart or crash of dwl by passing in the Wayland socket from an outside wrapper program such as wl-restart.

To use, apply this patch and start dwl with wl-restart --env dwl [args...]. This automatically restarts dwl when it crashes and tries to keep applications alive.

Currently, only Qt6 supports surviving a compositor restart. The environment variable QT_WAYLAND_RECONNECT=1 needs to be set in order for Qt apps to stay alive when the compositor crashes.

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• 2025-03-26

Authors

• yrlf