Hello Jasper,
A quick reply on some of your emails (grouped to avoid spamming the ML).
My experience with PAM and similar pluggable security modules is that
they provide a subpar user experience, are hard to integrate properly into
the system, and have large pain points that stem from having
Hi Steve, thanks for the thoughtful response.
PAM's technical implementation allows a number of modules to be tried in
order for authentication. Your API, as a PAM authentication module, is
limited to four operations: ask the user a non-secret question (with a
textual response), ask the
?Hello,
In a previous discussion on this ML [0] and blog article [1], Martin Peres
explained why Wayland should distinguish between normal and privileged clients
and what the security requirements for Wayland are. After that, I spent some
time thinking about how to handle the processes of
Hi Fabrice,
Hi all,
This topic came up in my previous one about window placement, and I'd like to
go further.
So currently there is no such thing as Global shortkeys and keyboard focus,
however let me present a typical real use-case:
[...]
Now, I've read some vague things about privileged
Hi Michael,
Is there any reason global shortcuts should lie with an application?
Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an interface on the compositor
side, where clients can register a global shortcut and the compositor
sends an event back in case of the shortcut being pressed.
In that case
A couple of notes on the previous emails,
Fabrice, so long as your app ensures that no third-party code can
programmatically grab a shortcut without user agreement, it would make sense to
let it have a privilege.
Quite obviously a compo should have the last word and be able to refuse a
