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So let’s talk about this Wayland thing (pointieststick.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Vincent@kbin.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why are they not using the protocol-level solution, is the pipewire way just simpler to implement

Dunno. wlr-export-dmabuf-unstable-v1 exists for a while. And wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1. Last one implemented in Sway and Mir.

Kde uses kde-zkde-screencast-unstable-v1 which requires pipewire for some reason and Gnome seems to use unregistered extension.