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Re: Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

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Indeed. Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) and multi-monitor with factional scaling per monitor; those were the things that apparently were to super-duper hard to fix in X11. Maybe a years or two until Wayland gets to full feature parity (except for features Wayland specifically does not have like network support and drawing window borders etc.) In those same tw…

> Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) That's a feature, not a security issue.

I beg to differ.

Any closed source app could easily contain a keylogger: great feature!

If we want people to run closed source on Linux, we need facilities to sandbox these apps like on other OSes. Flatpak is moving in this direction. Wayland's security also helps.

Re: Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

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Writing a pure X11 application in 2024 is an interesting choice, given the recent push to Wayland. Nevertheless, it looks like a pretty cool tool!

Building upon 40+ year old, stable technology that, compared to Wayland, still seems to be in popular demand [1, 2] is the only sensible thing for the lazy maintainer/dev. That's how I felt when I wrote X11-compatible EF*CK emoji keyboard [3].

[1]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=xserver-xorg...

[2]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libwayland-s...

[3]: https://efck-chat-keyboard.github.io

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