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		uecker on Jan 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency ... X always had the capability to isolate clients, but it is not used it would need some work which nobody does because of Wayland.

welterde on Jan 27, 2025 [–]

Some aspects of the client isolation are used by default when doing X11 forwarding via SSH. A remote keylogger will not work for instance.

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