Casey

You might remember that, during our security workshop in Vannes, we talked
about creating a privilege to stop non trusted applications to create such
surface.
It's definitively needed.

Dolinig
 Le 19 déc. 2014 19:31, "Schaufler, Casey" <[email protected]> a
écrit :

>  Wow. This looks like a security vulnerability. Imagine an app that
> presents itself as a window with lots of pinholes in it. The holes are too
> small to see, and you end up clicking the app behind it unawares of doing
> so. This seems like a **really bad** idea to this humble observer.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Dev [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Manuel
> Bachmann
> *Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2014 8:35 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Dev] [wayland] Non-rectangular Wayland window, input-through
>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> It has been asked recently how to make a non-rectangular Wayland window,
> where input events (mouse clicks, touch events) would go "through" the
> window and be received by windows stacked under it - think of a donut where
> clicking in the center passes through.
>
> The answer consists in using "wl_region" elements together with the
> "wl_input_region" functions. The idea is to create a "wl_region" structure,
> populate it with several rectangles which will determine which parts of the
> surface are clickable, and then call "wl_surface_set_input_region" to make
> it effective.
>
>
>
> Here is a sample code which demonstrates that :
>
>
> http://www.tarnyko.net/repo/wayland-3-shm_surface_input_regions.c
>
>
>
> And a screenshot :
>
> http://www.tarnyko.net/repo/wayland-3-shm_surface_input_regions.png
>
> This is a white rectangle with a hole in the center. Clicking in the hole
> will eventually activate other surfaces (here, a "weston-flower" instance).
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> *Manuel BACHMANN*
>
> * Tizen Project VANNES-FR*
>
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