Re: Wayland and Shutter

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On 02/08/2016 05:12 PM, Junk wrote:
> On 8 February 2016 23:35:22 CET, SternData <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I seem to be the only person on this bug:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299293
>>
>> So, if you use shutter and Gnome, would you mind loading Gnome with
>> Wayland and see if shutter works for you?  It would be nice to know if
>> it's me-specific or a general problem.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -- Steve
>> -- 
> Please attach the tracker bug mentioned in this article
> 
> https://fedoramagazine.org/help-fedora-test-wayland/
> 
> This is expected behaviour for Wayland, applications shouldn't have access to other applications viewports. 
> 
> Also, I'm not saying it's helpful behaviour, just expected. Anything that tries to copy the screen like Skype screenshareing teamviewer, or collaboration call systems do not work under Wayland. 
> --
> Junk
> 

Well, I pretty much got told where to stick it...

"Considering that Shutter is trying to use the X11 API, I'm wondering
why youthought it would work, or why you think GTK+ has anything to do
with it.

Wayland is fundamentally different than X11. You cannot grab the root
window;you cannot walk the tree of windows; and, in general, any process
can only access the contents of the windows it created.

You should ask the Shutter developers to fix their application to work
under Wayland; sadly there is no common protocol to ask the Wayland
compositor to provide a screenshot. GNOME Shell has a DBus interface
described here:
"


-- 
-- Steve
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