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It isn't addressed in the post and the author gets kind of defensive about it in the comments, but this is one of the things that Wayland is supposed to improve
by cpitman 11y ago
It isn't addressed in the post and the author gets kind of defensive about it in the comments, but this is one of the things that Wayland is supposed to improve on. Each application can only communicate with the compositor about its own windows, and only has access to a buffer with it's own content.
I'm honestly not sure where we are on the adoption path for Wayland. Pretty much all of my Linux usage is command line.
- naner 11y agoWayland was planned as default for Fedora 24 but has been postponed[1]. I don't think it is on by default in any flagship distributions yet. 1: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/03/04/why-wayland-anyway/ https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/03/04/why-wayland-anywa...
- ape4 11y agoAlso certainly it will be in Fedora 25 (in under a year). From there it will be in everything else. Good to see this problem about to go away.
- zanny 11y agoIt already works fine under Gnome, every major Gnome distro should be switching either late 2016 or early 2017. I cannot imagine Ubuntu Gnome not switching in 16.10. KDE is a little bit more behind, but I'd postulate well working Wayland somewhere around Plasma 5.8 - we are going to see 5.6 come out in a few months, and 5.8 is the start of next year. KDE themselves have had to propose tons of extensions to Wayland itself to support functionality they use - server side decorations, screenshotting, key grabbing, etc.
- jimmaswell 11y agoSo you can't have screen recording software in Wayland?
- eliaspro 11y agoYou can, but the recording needs to be done by the compositor (e.g. kwin)
- michaelmrose 11y agoWhich means you will have one choice which has a 50 50 chance of being crap. We really need a single way for all compositors to delegate this functionality to a trusted application.
- jimmaswell 11y agoApplication-specific permissions like on smart phones maybe?