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by floatboth 2844 days ago
On X11 and Windows (except UWP apps probably?), yes. On Wayland, random apps can't listen to global keyboard events.
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berti 2843 days ago
A number of people dislike Wayland because applications can't watch the screen, keyboard input, clipboard etc outside of their own window. Really, that's one of its great strengths over X11.
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ShamelessC 2843 days ago
I'm curious, how does an application such as OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/) work with such limitations in place?
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floatboth 2842 days ago
Through some API that checks authorization.

Eventually everyone should be using https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... (which is based on https://pipewire.org )

For now, e.g. https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-screencast uses org.gnome.Shell.Screencast

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