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This week in KDE: a deluge of new features (pointieststick.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] samc 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

By default, XWayland apps are now allowed to listen for non-alphanumeric keypresses, and shortcuts using modifier keys. This lets any global shortcut features they may have work with no user intervention required, while still not allowing arbitrary listening for alphanumeric keypresses which could potentially be used maliciously

This is... very smart actually. Any reason this is limited to Xwayland? (Is that XDG portal a thing yet?)

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

X apps can read all of your keystrokes. Wayland by default doesn't allow this, and because of that apps running on XWayland can ex. have it's global shortcuts broken. Plasma already had an option to change this behaviour back in 5.27. I guess they changed it from "Never" read keystrokes to "Only with modifier keys", as a default.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Shit, now malicious apps can spy my master password, which is CTRL, CTRL, ALT, META, CTRL, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, CTRL

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can wayland native apps not do that already? I assumed that they could and that's why this was being built for xwayland