Bug 412414

Summary:	Suspend single application
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kwayland	Reporter:	Lach Sławomir <slawek>
Component:	client	Assignee:	Martin Flöser <mgraesslin>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Lach Sławomir 2019-09-28 08:16:17 UTC

SUMMARY
I wrote this post, because it could be overkill and maybe possible feature. Firstly, read Lachu's (my) post on this topic: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=162566 .

Idea is about allowing to hibernate applications, especially on activity stopping. This could be only related to application doesn't uses network connections. You must probably modify Wayland client libraries to intercept some request and modify some wayland/application state saved in library memory, so this could been reproduced during activity startup.

Many years ago I've read about user space tools to hibernate single Linux process. It could be used only for application, which doesn't use network, so X Windowing system makes this tool unusable for X applications, because X is designed to work in network. But I known Wayland is less Socket dependent, so we could intercept some Wayland request, which are sending via socket. Also, Wayland is designed for integrate Wayland server with Window Manager (this isn't forced of course, since Wayland Compositor still could support own window manager protocol/support, but this is idea to solve many X problems), so we could only intercept request KWin support. On X it could been harder, because X.org are independent project and we couldn't modify it's code in simple manner.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. User order to stop activity
2. KWin show application, which use network and asks to close, stop it, change it activity or leave running in background
3. KWin hibernate each no network application to disk
4. User order to start activity again
5. KWin restart each hibernated activity

OBSERVED RESULT

EXPECTED RESULT

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Lach Sławomir 2019-09-28 08:19:05 UTC

Observed result:
Currently not such feature. There exist cli tool to hibernate Linux process, which doesn't use network, but it cannot hibernate X applications.

Expected result:
Everything could work in future, if user use wayland, so user could hibernate and restore app.

Platform:
GNU/Linux (it probably don't require any kernel features, maybe only check file description under /proc/app_pid/fd/<number> is a network socket or something).

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2019-10-07 13:33:07 UTC

Thanks for your comments.

As you note this is a massively difficult problem for any process that uses file descriptors. Things break down quite quickly. Wayland does not change much of this.

Maybe changes will come later, it is a requirement for plasma mobile, but it is not a bug we should track.