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		folmar on Feb 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit > Such as your screen locker, [...] or your graphical Apt client? No, not if input is grabbed, sorry. > your terminal with a sudo prompt in it, Pinentry&co are mainstream for a number of years.

kuschku on Feb 2, 2021 [–]

That’s true, but doesn’t solve the underlying issue of X11 security. You can patch some individual holes, but you can’t fix X11 to actually be properly isolated and secure (especially as that’d make compositors and DEs impossible to use).

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