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DRI3000

Posted Feb 12, 2013 21:57 UTC (Tue) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: DRI3000 by tshow
Parent article: LCA: The X-men speak

That's a good remark.
Either you loose transparent panels or implement some fixed functionality in the compositor (the way the screensaver is implemented in the compositor) or you need a way for the server to be able to distinguish between trusted clients and the other one, I don't know if this is possible..

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DRI3000

Posted Feb 13, 2013 8:15 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

> you need a way for the server to be able to distinguish between trusted clients and the other one,

It would be a big oversight in the design of wayland if the server could not do that...

DRI3000

Posted Feb 13, 2013 8:42 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

>> you need a way for the server to be able to distinguish between trusted clients and the other one,
> It would be a big oversight in the design of wayland if the server could not do that...

I don't know if this is a big oversight in Wayland's design or not,
but AFAIK this isn't a part of Wayland's design currently: the "clients" which needs privileges(screen capture, screen locker, visual keyboards) are implemented in the server instead.