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kelnostoday at 6:29 AM1 replyview on HN

No, that's a terrible idea. The right thing to do is design a Wayland protocol that gives you the access you need, get it accepted into wayland-protocols, and wait for all the compositors to implement it.

Yes, that's a slow, annoying process, but doing something bespoke means either you do the same work over and over for every compositor, or you only support one or two compositors. Neither of those is a good result.


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tuna74today at 4:16 PM

It is way faster and better to implement what you want/need in the DE. Later, it it makes sense, you can standardize it.