#x11
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GNOME is building a window save-and-restore system
At the GUADEC 2026 conference, Adrian Vovk described the work on a system-wide mechanism for saving and restoring window positions in GNOME. This is the third attempt, and in his view a successful one — though it won't make it into the GNOME 51 release.
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Frame — an X11 server written entirely in x86_64 assembly
After YSERVER, the Rust-based X11 server, an even more exotic implementation has surfaced: Frame is written entirely in x86_64 assembly. As with its predecessor, a significant portion of the code was created with the help of AI.