16–21 Jul 2026
Europe/Madrid timezone

Session Save/Restore

17 Jul 2026, 15:15
40m
40 Minute Presentation - In Person Design of User and Developer Experiences

Description

GNOME 51 is on track to introduce a platform-wide session save and restore framework. This is a long-requested feature that allows session and app state to be saved when the user logs out, and restored when they log back in.

This talk will take a deep dive through the what, why, and how of this feature

Author(s) Bio

Adrian is a GNOME developer on Red Hat's desktop team, focusing on GNOME's foundational plumbing. He's a member of the Release Team, and maintains the GNOME Display and Session Managers. He's also involved in GNOME OS, as well as its critical dependencies like systemd, Flatpak, and xdg-desktop-portals. On the side, he's helping organize projects under the Sovereign Tech Fund.

Presentation Type In Person
Pronouns He/Him
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Author

Adrian Vovk

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