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bloat on Jan 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame

The point being made here is that if I run an xterm on your machine (forwarded to the X server on my machine), then you can now access everything happening in the X server on my machine.

digi_owl on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Noted. What puzzles me is that this has not been sorted in all the years, without doing a complete ground up recreation...

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