On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 January 2014 20:59, Tobias Sarnowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> does XWayland operate? From the highlevel documentation at >> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html I conclude, that the X11 support >> is done via having a single Wayland client which then multiplexes the stuff >> internally to all X11 clients. So my guess is, that all X11 applications >> that work via XWayland have access to eachother but not other native Wayland >> clients. > > This is correct. > >> Or are the X11 clients already separated ike Wayland clients, so >> that this security aspect is already solved for those? > > I don't think this can be done without breaking X11 clients, so it > will remain like that.
It would be possible to run an X server per X client, which would provide similar isolation. GIven that xwayland already proxies copy-and-paste through the compositor (and hopefully dnd in the future), this basic inter-client communication would still be supported. Kristian _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
