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> Wayland "features" some protections too - apps can't access the global clipboard, or move themselves, screen-record, whatever. And nobody likes it! Because the inconvenience far outweighs the benefits.

The problem is that apps can't request these permissions either, while they are absolutely critical for a select for apps so that a desktop environment can be used for actual work. It's just "use wlroots and figure it out yourself or tough luck"

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I can screen record to websites via firefox, with all involved elements using wayland? This is doable on KDE/Gnome for over a year now I think.

Open Broadcasting Software works fine too.

Yes, that's because the window managers implemented this themselves because Wayland didn't. So that means most window managers use wlroots to provide the functionality, and a few (KDE/Gnome) are doing their own thing. This also means that if you want to interoperate with them it's different for each window manager (that doesn't use wlroots).

Things are somewhat usable now thanks to this, but far from ideal.

> This also means that if you want to interoperate with them it's different for each window manager

...which is abstracted behind desktop portals, so applications like OBS or Firefox don't need to care.

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