XWayland Grabs Onto Keyboard Grab Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XWayland Grabs Onto Keyboard Grab Support

Adding to the list of changes for X.Org Server 1.20 that will be released in the future is grab protocol support for XWayland...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-Grab-Server-1.20

[starshipeleven]

Happens to be RH/GNOME doing the hard work. Again.

Hail Hydra!

[M@GOid]

Hail Hydra!

Shame on you for making fun of the kid. He is only trying to get our attention. He needs a hug, not a reason to be more depressed, like be stuck using Gnome.

[starshipeleven]

Shame on you for making fun of the kid. He is only trying to get our attention. He needs a hug, not a reason to be more depressed, like be stuck using Gnome.

(sees what you did there)
(chuckles)

[gufide]

omg he's back!

[caligula]

Happens to be RH/GNOME doing the hard work. Again.

I'm pretty sure Canonical is secretly developing a CLA licensed kind-of-free Wayland replacement as we speak. :-)

[andreano]

capturing ALL keyboard events

This is why you can't alt-tab out of fullscreen windows in X, right? … how is that not the worst idea ever?

[bregma]

Soon Wayland will be everything X11 ever was. And more.

[Masush5]

This is why you can't alt-tab out of fullscreen windows in X, right? … how is that not the worst idea ever?

Huh? I can't remember the last time i had any trouble alt-tab'ing out of fullscreen apps under X.
As for the use case of this feature, it's stated in the article, mainly VM or remote desktop.

[edoantonioco]

Soon Wayland will be everything X11 ever was. And more.

*Soon™'