To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I'd try something "simple"... Let's see if there's some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far:
https://jwz.org/b/ykqC
I honestly thought that "grab a screenshot" would be a straightforward and non-controversial thing. I mean how could it not be?
But you kick over any Wayland rock, and this is the kind of absolutely bugfuck insanity you find underneath.
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