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They expect screensavers to be able to lock the screen. https://web.archive.org/web/20250714073924/https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#17 https://web.arc

• nixosbestos 1y ago
  Yeah I'm so, just so upset XScreensaver can't lock a Wayland session. Jfc, good company there with a jwz link. There's so much wrong with wanting or thinking an XScreensaver app would somehow work with a random Wayland compositor. But it does require ignorance of the exact security changes made to the model when moving from X11 to Wayland. I can't. I can't. I should never waste my time in these threads. Edit: i do also find it amusing how much of that manpage is dedicated to calling out how fragile and broken X11 is. You can't make this stuff up. Edit2; I actually can't get over the irony of linking an app that notoriously has had a storied history because of X11's architecture. I can't name the number of time X11 sessions were not locked properly. Whatever. Going to keep happily enjoying the basic features that every other desktop OS user expects that I get with KDE, gnome, cosmic, away, Niri, and more, in Wayland. Good luck unclutching y'all's pearls.
  • cratermoon 1y ago
    Keep working on your Project Xanadu. I won't wait around for it be finished.