Bug 457970

Summary:	When kwin_wayland crashes and takes down all your apps, ksmserver should restart and restore them
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	Session Management	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	wayland-only
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Nate Graham 2022-08-16 20:32:44 UTC

Git master everything KDE on Fedora 35.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use systemd boot.
2. Make kwin_wayland crash, or else kill it yourself.

OBSERVED RESULT
Plasma restarts, but with no apps open that were open before, because ksmserver didn't restart too.

EXPECTED RESULT
ksmserver also restarts and re-opens all the apps you had open at the moment KWin crashed.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If I manually run `systemctl --user restart plasma-ksmserver.service`, ksmserver launches and immediately restores all the apps that went down when KWin crashed. So it would be nice for this to happen automatically, somehow.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-08-16 20:37:47 UTC

Several other background-ish services also fail to restart in this case:

● plasma-baloorunner.service                                                                       >
● plasma-krunner.service                                                                           >
● plasma-kscreen-osd.service                                                                       >
● plasma-ksmserver.service                                                                         >
● plasma-kwallet-pam.service 

Could they all be fixed in a generic way, or would this require something to specially fix each of them?

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2025-09-22 09:26:35 UTC

This isn't feasible.