Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

Post by hollerith » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #31

jchw wrote: post #6

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On the KDE side, Wayland has been going pretty well. Wayland sessions make up 82% of all sessions with telemetry enabled. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/15/this-week-in-plasma-file-tr... For me the real conundrum was SwayWM vs KDE Wayland rather than any X.org session; I really felt like SwayWM was a good upgrade from i3wm and gave me a better desktop session with much less hacks. Hope to see wlroots push forward and…

> Wayland sessions make up 82% of all sessions with telemetry enabled . That is a significant caveat.

Post by jasonjayr » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 3:00 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #29

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #12

Heavy customization is important to me on the Linux desktop. This project has given me a lot more faith in Wayland than 5 years of hearing debates about it.

FWIW, as a ... Wayland skeptic/pessimist¹, screen locking does seem to be one place where things actually work and seem more sensible than under X. ¹ It always seems to be just around the next corner. Sixteen years on, it would be nice if we could have feature parity.

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 3:31 AM UTC

jasonjayr wrote: post #34

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #29

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FWIW, as a ... Wayland skeptic/pessimist¹, screen locking does seem to be one place where things actually work and seem more sensible than under X. ¹ It always seems to be just around the next corner. Sixteen years on, it would be nice if we could have feature parity.

From my understanding, the security decisions around things like screen locking are the source of many of the pain points holding back X11 users from wayland.. Things like xtest(send input events from random sources), screen grabbing/video recording(allowing another app to see the contents of another window from a potentially different security domain), focus grabbing, input sniffing, are all difficult on wayland, sp…

Post by jchw » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 3:52 AM UTC

jasonjayr wrote: post #35

hollerith wrote: post #32

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Do you have any reason to believe that Wayland users are more likely than X users to enable telemetry?

On a distro with wayland as the default, users are probably defaulting to allowing telemetry as well. (maybe? Just a guess ...)

Post by whatevaa » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #11

skerit wrote: post #4

Incredible that we're getting something like this before a plain good old screensaver

For use with vintage computers that use CRTs? If not, what kind of oddball display / use-case do you have, where it would be better to play a screensaver than to follow the usual modern flow of display dim -> display black -> display sleep -> computer lock -> [maybe] computer sleep?