Yes, I made it using a laptop’s trackpad, how could you tell?

[Image description: Panel 1: Young man confidently walking, his vest bears the Wayland logo. Behind him is a grunt with the Gnome logo on his face holding a katana. The young man says: “It’s high time you retire, old man!” Panel 2: An old man with a long beard and the Xorg logo on his chest is sitting on a throne and petting a rat, the XFCE mascot. He says: “It’s still a hundred years too early for you to defeat me!” ]

  • @Pantherina
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    74 months ago

    X11 is insecure. Any program can read any keystroke, any windows contents, can input anything anywhere etc.

    The concept of separate apps basically doesnt exist.

    • @WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Those security features are misleading.

      A second app can already read all of your files, modify the first app, modify $PATH to replace your display server and do anything it wants as your user. Running wayland instead of Xorg provides no tangible benefits in security.

      • @Pantherina
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        64 months ago

        Yes and wayland is a puzzle piece of fixing that.

        The other one is containerized apps that use a trusted system portal to get opt-in filesystem access to actually needed directories.