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@feddit.de
    114·
    9 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.

    • WaterWaiverEnglish
      52·
      9 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@feddit.de
        71·
        9 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.