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> As an exercise I recommend to write a native universal applicable Wayland application that takes screenshots. As someone who tried to do this... Ouch. Things
by craftinator 5y ago
> As an exercise I recommend to write a native universal applicable Wayland application that takes screenshots.
As someone who tried to do this... Ouch. Things like this are why X will still be around in 15 years.
- markstos 5y agoWayland as a `screencopy` protocol and the `wlroots` library packages it for other compositors to use. Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots? Ref: https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
- craftinator 5y ago> Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots? In general, when your diagnosis to a problem is "the people using my product are all just too lazy to use it right", the problem is almost always that your product is the problem.
- folmar 5y agoNot really - to quote the page you reference: > "Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and backward incompatible changes may be made. and the compositors were there way before 2018, so it's a bit too much to expect them to jump on the protocol.