Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server

Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by prmoustache on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:32AM (#38447550)

> Disabling screen and input capture should have been an 'opt in' feature for the truly paranoid.

You can do screen captures on wayland. I've seen tools that were used to share a mouse and a keyboard to multiple computers kvm like that supported wayland so input capture seems to be possible to me.

My only gripe with wayland is that we seems to be lacking a common top level interface that is compatible with any compositor. Right now if some feature is not managed by the toolkit's wayland backend, devs need to have to implement compatibility with gnome's mutter, wlroots based compositor and kwin independently which doesn't seem to be a sane way of doing things. I wish all projects would converge into a common library like wlroots.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by wing-_-nuts on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:34AM (#38447579)

You can, now, but it's still not up to the level of polish that we had in x11, and nearly all of these are janky workarounds to a self inflicted problem

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by bitwize on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:36AM (#38447618)

That will change, and you can expect support in Wayland to eventually surpass X11 because guess where all the developer effort is.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by _jal on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:57AM (#38447889)

> That will change

Been hearing that from Wayland folks about very basic things for what, 15 years now?

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by prmoustache on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:09PM (#38448052)

Basic things have been sorted for a while already.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by _jal on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:27PM (#38448273)

But not complicated things like, uh, dumping a representation of what's on screen to a file.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by ihattendorf on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:59PM (#38448714)

I've been using https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/grim for ~5 years now.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by prmoustache on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:43PM (#38452531)

This has been possible for a long while already.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by charcircuit on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:53AM (#38447833)

>I wish all projects would converge into a common library like wlroots.

They could also converge to a single display server implementation and the display server can interface with a separate window manager which could be swapped out.

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