Re:Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)
by solarkraft on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:02AM
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> Wine is unimplementable in Wayland. By design.
What, why?
> Screenshotting and screen casting tools are unimplementable in Wayland, by design.
They're not implementable without specific privileges or protocols and that is a very good thing. I don't want my calculator app to be able to record eveything on my screen.
> I use the X forwarding feature so often that I have a hotkey on my laptop
This seems like your very specific use case (and wouldn't be impossible in Wayland).
What, why?
> Screenshotting and screen casting tools are unimplementable in Wayland, by design.
They're not implementable without specific privileges or protocols and that is a very good thing. I don't want my calculator app to be able to record eveything on my screen.
> I use the X forwarding feature so often that I have a hotkey on my laptop
This seems like your very specific use case (and wouldn't be impossible in Wayland).