Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by Spivak on Sunday July 07, 2019 @02:08PM
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* Screen recording is a privileged operation in Wayland which is left to compositors to implement as they see fit.
* Screen recording apps are therefore largely just nice frontends on whatever primitives the compositor exposes to do screen recording.
* GNOME speaks dbus and exposes those primitives as dbus services.
* So you need to speak dbus.
You can't really avoid dbus without going really far out of your way these days. Unless something better comes along it's going to be the Linux messaging passing system.
* Screen recording apps are therefore largely just nice frontends on whatever primitives the compositor exposes to do screen recording.
* GNOME speaks dbus and exposes those primitives as dbus services.
* So you need to speak dbus.
You can't really avoid dbus without going really far out of your way these days. Unless something better comes along it's going to be the Linux messaging passing system.