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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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teekert ◴[14 Oct 24 15:35 UTC] No.41838500[source]▶
Is it much more difficult under Wayland?
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favorited ◴[14 Oct 24 19:10 UTC] No.41840816[source]▶
Wayland intentionally makes this more difficult, because one of the security goals of the project is that (by default) Wayland clients shouldn't have visibility into other clients' window contents/events/etc.

Of course, it still needs to be possible under Wayland, because there are plenty of legitimate use-cases (screenshots, screen sharing, video capture, etc.), but it was a non-goal to make it as simple as X.

Wayland merged the image-capture-source and image-copy-capture protocol extensions earlier this year: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Merges-Screen-Capture

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enriquto ◴[14 Oct 24 21:11 UTC] No.41842067{3}[source]▶
> Wayland intentionally makes this more difficult,

some men just want to watch the world burn

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favorited ◴[14 Oct 24 23:23 UTC] No.41843266{4}[source]▶
And Wayland keeps their apps from spying on the rest of my screen!
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1. account42 ◴[15 Oct 24 13:05 UTC] No.41848153{5}[source]▶
I don't run "apps" on my PC. I run programs from a trusted source repository. I expect those programs to not be hindered in their attempts to serve me.