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345 points splitbrain | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 13:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[14 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41837682[source]▶
I love how simple this is- Barely 100 lines or C++ (ignoring comments). That's one thing that makes me prefer X11 over Wayland.
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tapoxi ◴[14 Oct 24 15:34 UTC] No.41838489[source]▶
In Wayland you just start a capture with the xdg-desktop-portal API and it notifies the user and let them select the area to capture.
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gchamonlive ◴[14 Oct 24 15:40 UTC] No.41838564[source]▶
Yes, but I believe op was refering to how interacting with all things Wayland seems to be more involved than with x11. I'm not sure this is indeed like this, I have zero experience in developing for Wayland, but I think this is what op meant.
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tapoxi ◴[14 Oct 24 15:46 UTC] No.41838611{3}[source]▶
From a quick "how do I implement this in Python" with ChatGPT it seems to be about 30 lines, since most of the heavy lifting is done for you by the API.
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1. p_l ◴[14 Oct 24 22:00 UTC] No.41842491{4}[source]▶
It means you got to tickle the banana, good luck making sure that the gorilla holding it is fine with that.