Re:Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
by FloatArtifact on Friday November 25, 2022 @01:29PM
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Pretty much any accessibility or automation software suffers here without having to be a root. Wayland makes accessibility impossible is developer with its fragmentation. Want to make tools that work across now Wayland ecosystem good luck with that.
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Re:Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday November 25, 2022 @05:26PM
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> Pretty much any accessibility or automation software suffers here without having to be a root
Even with root they'll have a harder time; there's a difference between "I can trivially tell the X server to give me details about events and then interact with arbitrary windows in arbitrary ways" vs "by running as root, I can watch raw input events come in from the mouse/keyboard and then try to figure out what they mean".
Re:Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
by kaba0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:54AM
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It’s almost like there are layers to security. You don’t have to be root, but nor should any random npm install script be able to steal keystrokes and send them away. While we are it, linux desktop security just sucks all around.