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I think the original blog post from the developer is a better link: https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/ Michael added zero extra information on top of that.
I appreciate the summary. Also there's a clear link in the summary to the developer's much longer post.
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Taking screenshots/streaming is not a hard problem. However Wayland artificially turns something as simple as taking a screenshot into a hard problem what was before a simple function call to XGetImage(). As exercise I recommend to implement a native screenshot application in both X11 and Wayland.
I think you're completely ignoring the security implications of "a simple function call to XGetImage()".
Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.
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I think you're completely ignoring the security implications of "a simple function call to XGetImage()".
What are the security implications? Programs that call XGetImage() when sandboxed in a Xpra/Xephyr session will get back nothing.
Are there people on here who regularly scrape HN posts for data? Because I'd love a list of user handles of people who-- before this day-- have written variations of, "Wayland-based systems have been totally ready for use for years now." And maybe a browser extension that greys out comments from those handles.
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I appreciate the summary. Also there's a clear link in the summary to the developer's much longer post.
There's also countless links to ads. I feel like a three paragraph summary that offers you no real information over the title, does not warrant the visit to Phoronix.
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go. Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X progr…
> I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted? No. Because Wayland is fundamentally different from X the following won't ever work: * Window managers * Programs that need to know their absolute window coordinates * Windows that want to draw to the root window * Programs that want to capture the screen via XGetImage()
> * Windows that want to draw to the root window
Gnome certainly won't support it, but in principle a compositor could expose that functionality.
> * Programs that want to capture the screen via XGetImage()
Yeah, doing anything via XAnything() only works on X. So you replace XAnything() by somethingElse().
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go. Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X progr…
With XWayland there is no urgent need for conversion. And "a lot of applications that just wouldn't load" sounds pretty fishy to begin with.
What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore? Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?
Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.
If your home television supports Miracast, you can do it today: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.NetworkDisplays
It doesn't seem to establish a connection properly with my Intel 8265 card out of the box though. I'll have to play around with it a bit more.