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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by stingraycharles on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:58AM (#26759287)
“With X11, everything displayed on the screen is compromised. Also, all inputs, keyboard and otherwise.

”With Wayland, each app only sees their own pixels.”

Out of curiosity, if this is true, how are screenshots / screen recorders implemented? Do they require some special permissions? And if this is the case, why wouldn’t any app be able to acquire these special permissions?

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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by dijit on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:57AM (#26759527)
This is currently why a lot of people are complaining screen recorders do not work.

There are solutions to this, which allow finer grained access to screen recording in future, but there are a couple of competing standards right now.

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