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Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols

The ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 screen copy protocols build upon wlroots’ wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 with various improvements for better screen capture support under Wayland. These new protocols should allow for better performance and window capturing support for use-cases around RDP/VNC remote desktop, screen sharing, and more.

Merge Request: Create ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1

mactan ,

under the definition of bike shedding in the Encyclopedia you’ll find wayland the prime example. been waiting years on one pr for them to decide on the word “may” vs “will”

gbin ,

It drives me crazy. Just release it 18+months ago and iterate with versions, at least your users will have the feature in their hands.

skullgiver ,
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That’s how you get the Zoom problem, where a Zoom developer decided to be nice and port their program to Wayland before screen capture was implemented well, resulting in a “workaround” that took screenshots in a loop rather than move to the proper API.

The API has been in the hands of people and developers for months, just not those who like their system to be moderately stable.

gbin ,

It is kind of shooting at the ambulance, zoom needs to also adapt to the new API. The alternative is a completely non functional Wayland for videoconferencing for years… Unusable stable is not better than unstable usable IMHO at least you have a shot at fixing it for the second option.

red ,

I hope this can mean I can use my android tablet as a 3rd screen with vnc with usable lag and frame rate

daq ,

Pipewire works well enough for sharing screen even though it isn’t well supported by shit software like Slack. Would this replace it?

ashaman2007 ,

So… does THIS mean that this doesn’t support explicit sync, right as explicit sync is about to be stable and supported in the NVIDIA 560/565 drivers? As far as I know there are currently other ways to do screen capture outside of this protocol on Wayland so its not like there are no interim solutions, why release this when it is essentially still incomplete?

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