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> Of course, Wayland also has the problem that it's intentionally excluding some useful features that X had, like global hotkeys and screensharing... Screen sh
by duskwuff 4y ago
> Of course, Wayland also has the problem that it's intentionally excluding some useful features that X had, like global hotkeys and screensharing...
Screen sharing was always a weak point in X11, actually. VNC servers like x11vnc use absurd, inefficient hacks like periodically capturing fragments of the screen and checking for changes [1] -- while an extension to provide change notifications exists, it's been unreliable for ages [2] and the standard advice is to disable it.
[1]: https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc#algorithm https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc#algorithm
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815909 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815909