Starting a process in a Wayland session for data capture

[Simon Ser]

On Monday, June 3, 2019 5:21 PM, <mmarkd9 at libero.it> wrote:
> > xdg-desktop-portal should probably be used for this. The internal
>
> > compositor-specific D-Bus interfaces are not meant to be used by
> > third-parties AFAIK.
>
> I looked into xdg-desktop-portal but AFAIK it doesn't provide a real
> RDP API (e.g. it user-prompts for devices or screens choice and has
> no way to do that in the background as a real RDP server daemon would
> require). That's why I was considering the internal interfaces.

That's true. Maybe this issue should be raised on the
xdg-desktop-portal issue tracker.

> I still don't understand: if I have two users connected to their
> respective gnome-shell (or plasma shells) implementing Wayland, how
> do I tell one process launched by perhaps a third user to capture one
> user's instead of the other's desktop?

Two users would have a different D-Bus session bus. A third user
wouldn't be able to capture someone else's desktop.

> > Il 3 giugno 2019 alle 13.55 Simon Ser contact at emersion.fr ha scritto:
> > On Monday, June 3, 2019 1:24 PM, mmarkd9 at libero.it wrote:
> >
> > > My goal would be to capture screen data for an entire desktop session
> > > (either KDE or GNOME). I know that compositors like mutter provide
> > > internal d-bus interfaces to get this kind of data and enable RDP
> > > operations […]
> >
> > xdg-desktop-portal should probably be used for this. The internal
> > compositor-specific D-Bus interfaces are not meant to be used by
> > third-parties AFAIK.
> >
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