Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Begone Wayland, X12 Is My New Best Friend" video.

Press keys, the window manager accepts them and passes them along to the application with focus, if they're relevant. Press a global shortcut and the WM would handle it and send them nowhere else. No apps in focus, as in none open on a given desktop/workspace, then ignore them. No need for a keylogger being a security risk because it need not work if the OS properly segments input from what processes it. That's the solution, now whether anyone does it with what already exists or starts a new project is up to them, I guess. And if you're thinking about global shortcuts for common tasks, like ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste, message passing is the solution. A program sets up a message queue and gets input that way instead of needing to process keys directly itself, but that'd be more like how Windows works (or worked?, I haven't used it in 20 years and don't know if it still does). The GUI library could provide functionality like edit controls where keys could be requested directly.
2
Invert window colors when an app refuses to use dark mode, zoom when an app doesn't support it or you don't want to disrupt your use of the app as in using a web browser which would change the layout of everything as you zoom in. Those are two things that some compositors can do which are incredibly useful.
2
Screens are bloat. All you need are 8 blinking LED's in a row and you can perfectly interact with any computer. :P On a serious note, I definitely agree that had they named it X12 it would not have gotten as much hate as it has, but I'm still pushing for a project named Y.
1
@BrodieRobertson Okay then, LED's are bloat. You just need to feel the vibrations of the needle as it moves over the harddrive platters to interpret what's going on inside your computer. :P
1
@eDoc2020 Back when I was still using Win98 I could similarly tell what was going on with my computer just by the sounds it made. Those were some fun times. Dual booting Windows and Linux, and seeing how Linux made a lot less sound and booted faster even then. But I don't really miss them so much.
1
If you're new to Linux, I'd suggest Mint or Fedora. If you can handle complexity and don't mind a lot of setup work which will pay off, then Arch or Slackware.
1
@kabirkarnrajput6641 If you can handle it, either Arch or Slackware can be quite light, but if you're a bit more of an expert user, I'd suggest Gentoo as it can be tuned for potatoes quite nicely, but be warned it's not something that's going to be easy, even though the documentation is really good.
1
Looks like most distros patched it. Do you think that a long-standing bug means you should just throw out all of the old code or do you think perhaps someone should try to fix it as it appears to have been done here for most distros?
1
@angeldude101 Blanket inverting does work for a dark mode fallback. Try it.
1