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> On the other hand, screen recording by applications require interfacing with pipewire, which is pretty much done by many programs

And why doesn't xwayland support it out of the box? Is crippling existing X11 programs intentional or is it just an inherent limitation of the way wayland works?




Because seeing other windows is a fundamentally privileged action. Also, the implementation of xwayland is basically a nested X - so by using the X screen recording api, it will simply see other X windows.




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