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> For example, on macOS, Ghostty supports Quick Look, force touch, the macOS secure input API, built-in window state recovery on restart, etc. These are all native APIs provided by macOS that don't have equivalents in Linux desktop environments.

I believe window state recovery has some approximate equivalent in GNOME and KDE, but maybe not exactly the same (and I don't know how easy it is to integrate with).




On X11, Gnome and KDE Plasma supported session/state restore, but this was based on XSMP and couldn't be simply reused for Wayland.

There's an ongoing standardization effort to provide equivalent functionality for Wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

KDE Plasma provides a "fake session restore" for the time being: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...


Ah, good to know.




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