Re: legacy X server isolation

2016-08-11 Thread pixelfairy
So what your saying is theres nothing stopping anyone from doing it this way, just that no one did? On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:39 AM pixelfairy wrote: > Pekka said > > > The issue I have seen mentioned is that there are X apps built to *need* > the single shared X server model

Re: legacy X server isolation

2016-08-11 Thread pixelfairy
appers. like a web browser running a pdf reader. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:57 AM Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:38:15 + > pixelfairy wrote: > > > ive only looked at some docs and demos of wayland and tried it on a > laptop > > with fedora 24 briefly

legacy X server isolation

2016-08-11 Thread pixelfairy
ive only looked at some docs and demos of wayland and tried it on a laptop with fedora 24 briefly. in a wayland session, xinput could read the keyboard of other x11 apps. Since wayland can have a fallback x server, why not start each x11 app with its own x server so they'll have automatic isolatio