Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1083750/

One of the features that users often miss when moving from X11 to Wayland is
the ability to save and restore the position of windows between sessions. At GUADEC 2026, held in
A Coruña, Spain, Adrian Vovk provided an overview of work that has gone
into providing a platform-wide save and restore framework for GNOME. After two
failed attempts at landing an API, he believes that the third try will be the
one to succeed—though not in time for the upcoming GNOME 51 release
due in October.