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. > > What apps woul

Re: legacy X server isolation

2016-08-11 Thread pixelfairy
Pekka said > The issue I have seen mentioned is that there are X apps built to *need* the single shared X server model. What apps would those be? Are you talking about ones whos functionality would now be the domain of the compositor? At least in my own limited use, i can tell you many apps dont n

Re: legacy X server isolation

2016-08-11 Thread Pekka Paalanen
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. 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

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