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xkbcat
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Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
Yes, approximately. In X11 at least, the hardware codes are called keycodes, and the human readable names are called keysyms. Example ofuse of the XkbKeycodeToKeysym function in use: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat/blob/8abc3402cb679027a3bd0313...
Keysyms don't necessarily strictly match "key location"; keyboards are allowed to output whatever codes they want for whatever key they want (see e.g. QMK firmware; often used in custom keyboards to do complex conditional key remapping), but they're relatively consistent between common keys on most keyboards, and consistent on the same keyboard even if you switch keyboard layouts in software, or have some custom firmware which functionality is stateful.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server
>I don't know a single person that has ever fallen victim to a virus or malware on linux, and I've been using it almost exclusively for the past 20 years. If it was a threat vector, it clearly wasn't a very big issue.
So: no true Linux user succumbs to malwares and no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
Putting that aside, it doesn't take much effort to find an example of X11 keylogger that requires zero superuser privilege and zero explicit permission granting by the user. Here, the first result from DDGing "x11 keylogger": https://github.com/anko/xkbcat
It is hard to believe this has not occurred in the wild. If such attack really hasn't occurred before in the Linux world, I would rather use the unpopularity of Linux desktop as my justification.
- I keylogger su linux necessitano il super user?
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do you run an Anti Virus on your Linux system?
i think you’re misunderstanding what a virus is or what it is a capable of. sudo (just like every other piece of software) can be exploited, which would allow anything (such as a malicious program) to get root privilege with no user input. there are also plenty of other approaches for viruses to take that wouldn’t require root, like X11 keylogging, and user namespace exploits just to name a few. being selective with what you run with sudo can help a lot don’t get me wrong, but it definitely isn’t some silver bullet. think of it like how windows can get malware without ever running something as administrator
- Tray icons missing
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What are the benefit(s) of using Wayland over Xorg?
For now, the focus is getting Wayland on par with Xorg. However, there are a number of infrastructure improvements behind the scenes that make it superior to Xorg. For example, applications can no longer silently capture keystrokes without elevated privileges. Demo.
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Anyone using obs in kde wayland ?
It's a bit more complicated than that, but essentially yes, see e.g. xkbcat and some other of the keyloggers linked there.
- There is no noticeable difference between X11 and Wayland
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Fedora 34 Gnome 40 Wayland vs X11
Here's a keylogger i found while googling: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat
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Secure way to run a proprietary software?
X11 provides no mechanism for keeping applications from reading potentially sensitive input. Consider this simple, 100-line program to log keystrokes, and consider what Zoom might be doing with this kind of power.
wlroots
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Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
>barrier has been unmaintained for a long time.
As if not having new features added for 2 years makes it stop working? barrier is perfectly fine on normal linux desktop installs. I actually use synergy 1.x personally which has been "unmaintained" for much, much longer. Except synergy 1.x will compile and run on anything from windows 98 to ubuntu 5 to debian 12. You can't get a waynergy or inputleap to compile on an OS more than 2 years old. And even then, as you say, it's crapshoot if the particular wayland will have libei; many like sway are actively hostile to it and never will: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2378
- Does Wayland use less battery than x11 in Fedora Linux?
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Arch Linux odd question
It looks like they actually patched it to filter those modes out, so presumably it worked out of the box and was considered undesirable: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/3038
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
I haven't experienced any of those. The video game performance hit may be due to vsync, but I don't play games so I haven't noticed.
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If I install a distro without a GUI, can I still launch graphical applications (like a Firefox window, for example)?
You can however use tinywl. It is an example Wayland compositor that can't do more than displaying one application.
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Nearest-neighbor scaling on XWayland apps?
Sway/wlroots has implemented this, but I can't find any discussion for KDE.
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Wofi is SO superior to Rofi
wlroots is archived on github. Is it abandoned? Just saying, that only means they moved git hosts :-D
- wayland-protocols update to allow tearing
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Wayland harder for DE developers?
A lot of compositors are based no the wlroots lirbary. So they are still sharing the development effort and have a common base, its just in the form of a library rather than a display server.
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What does gamescope output to?
gamescope use wlroots
What are some alternatives?
Keylogger - A simple keylogger for Windows, Linux and Mac
wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support
DuckCpp - Multifunctional keylogger using WinAPI and libcurl
nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures - Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
keylogger - A no-frills keylogger for macOS.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ixkeylog - *NIX X11 Keylogger
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wayland-keylogger - Proof-of-concept Wayland keylogger
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.