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X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too
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Xeyes is a useful utility for Wayland too because you can use it to determine if a window is running in Wayland or XWayland mode. Just run Xeyes and then move your cursor over the window in question. If the eyes move, it's Xwayland, otherwise it's regular Wayland.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostExample of what's Impossible on Wayland. No way to read the mouse cursor position in the name of security...Last edited by dragon321; 02 August 2021, 06:31 AM.
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Originally posted by bitman View PostI think they went too far with security thing. It just adds so many more hoops to jump over while in the end if malicious code runs on your system you are done anyways. Ok so with wayland now we have to inject some code into every running process we want to spy on. Not exactly a big deal. In the end all it takes is one smart guy to write one library that everyone will use to achieve this, just like reflective loader on windows. Thats it. But all developers will have to suffer fallout of failed security boundary forever now. I am sure better security could have been achieved in less intrusive way.
Not allowing random applications to globally read keyboard inputs is not intrusive.
Not allowing random applications to just read any X buffer they want (screen recording) is not intrusive.
Those things are basics, no sane individual would have the idea that those things are needed features.
X11/Xorg is the by far worst display stack out there, there is no excuse for it anymore.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostExample of what's Impossible on Wayland. No way to read the mouse cursor position in the name of security...
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I think they went too far with security thing. It just adds so many more hoops to jump over while in the end if malicious code runs on your system you are done anyways. Ok so with wayland now we have to inject some code into every running process we want to spy on. Not exactly a big deal. In the end all it takes is one smart guy to write one library that everyone will use to achieve this, just like reflective loader on windows. Thats it. But all developers will have to suffer fallout of failed security boundary forever now. I am sure better security could have been achieved in less intrusive way.
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Example of what's Impossible on Wayland. No way to read the mouse cursor position in the name of security...
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X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too
Phoronix: X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too
Several X.Org/X11 components saw new releases on Sunday for kicking off August, including the xeyes program seeing its first non-point release in eleven years...
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