X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back to 1988 with X11R2

Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by bravetraveler on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:24PM (#37759794)

Ditto, Wayland user for... at least four years now; on Sway, even. Happy to help where I can - I'm very comfortably settled into this new world.

There's a lot of assumption around Wayland handling based on the value of "$DESKTOP_SESSION". This is relevant for xdg portals that make screensharing and the like possible.

In the end it's mainly Electron/Chromium things that may need some launch arguments to truly do Wayland. Anything GTK/Qt has been inherent.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by hackernudes on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:06PM (#37760027)

How about sharing contents of specific windows for webrtc (or OBS)?

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by bravetraveler on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:15PM (#37760083)

I'm a bit naive on things like WebRTC unfortunately. I can share displays... but specific applications, I'm not sure - I don't believe so.

This is with WebEx which I think uses WebRTC; it got funny when I disabled too much fingerprinting [in my browser].

I've managed without specific-app-sharing by using workspaces

OBS worked okay the last I toyed with it, IIRC using Pipewire for the capturing.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by hactually on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:18PM (#37760459)

Can you be more specific - what did you try doing specifically?

OBS works fine from what I've heard but must admit I don't use it myself.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by hackernudes on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:37PM (#37785591)

I'm using sway (wlroots + xdg-desktop-portal-wlr). Sharing the whole screen works.

I have tried using chrome (stable and unstable) and OBS. OBS uses pipewire to capture (which I believe in turn talks wayland xdg-desktop-portal). I think chromium works the same way (I have the chrome flag "enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer" turned on). There doesn't seem to be a way to share a single specific window.

There is so much half-cocked or old information out there it is hard to find the right place to look. At the end of the day I'm not sure if xdg-desktop-portal, wlroots, or pipewire need to be improved.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by loa_in_ on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:07AM (#37761811)

OBS snap package has everything working out of the box on Fedora/Mate with Wayland and Compiz

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by hackernudes on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:39PM (#37785601)

Does that use gnome for the wayland compositor? Not sure what you mean by compiz in this context -- I thought that was an X11 window manager. I see wayfire is a "spiritual successor" of compiz based on wlroots.

I am using sway + wlroots + xdg-desktop-portal-wlr on my system.

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