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by sprash 1910 days ago
> Support for Wayland is getting up there.

After almost 13 years of development the progress is rather embarrassing.
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yobert 1910 days ago
It's a hard problem to solve. Wouldn't you agree?
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sprash 1910 days ago
Taking screenshots/streaming is not a hard problem. However Wayland artificially turns something as simple as taking a screenshot into a hard problem what was before a simple function call to XGetImage(). As exercise I recommend to implement a native screenshot application in both X11 and Wayland.
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marcodiego 1910 days ago
I think you're completely ignoring the security implications of "a simple function call to XGetImage()".
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sprash 1910 days ago
What are the security implications? Programs that call XGetImage() when sandboxed in a Xpra/Xephyr session will get back nothing.
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marcodiego 1910 days ago
Will get nothing... that means the screenshot won't be taken.
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