Re: Starting a process in a Wayland session for data capture

2019-06-03 Thread mmarkd9
> xdg-desktop-portal should probably be used for this. The internal > compositor-specific D-Bus interfaces are not meant to be used by > third-parties AFAIK. I looked into xdg-desktop-portal but AFAIK it doesn't provide a real RDP API (e.g. it user-prompts for devices or screens choice and has no

Starting a process in a Wayland session for data capture

2019-06-03 Thread mmarkd9
Hi, I'm trying to understand what does it mean for a process to be 'started in a Wayland session'. My goal would be to capture screen data for an entire desktop session (either KDE or GNOME). I know that compositors like mutter provide internal d-bus interfaces to get this kind of data and enabl