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Re:X Window System Basics by tapoxi on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @09:25AM (#34338783)
Semantics, if you're using GNOME or KDE like most users they support the org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast interface when running under Wayland.

I'm not sure if there are any compositor specific interfaces or why they would be used when xdg portals exist.

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Re:X Window System Basics by sprash on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:40PM (#34342542)
Not Semantics. It shows how Wayland forces a Gnome/GTK and KDE/Qt duopoly and cuts out the long tail of hobbyists and power users. The latter was the interesting part about the FOSS/Linux-Desktop ecosystem. With Wayland the FOSS-Desktop will be 100% corporate controlled.
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Re:X Window System Basics by QUrprUd1nCeicw on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:20PM (#34347168)
Can you please knock off the conspiracy theories?
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