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Episode: 4004
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Title: HPR4004: Wayland to X11 bridge
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4004/hpr4004.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:30:14
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4000 and 4 for Thursday the 7th of December 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Wayland to X11 Bridge.
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It is hosted by Ken Fallon and is about 5 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Ken found out about X-Prop and X-Wayland video bridge.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public
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Radio.
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This is an episode in the series, today I learned when I logged in this morning I noticed
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that one of my desktops had a small window that square about the size of your thumbnail
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on the screen.
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I had no idea what it was and I immediately jumped to the conclusion that some lead hacker
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had exposed my information about that I realized, well first let's not panic and gather
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some information.
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I remember years ago there was an application on the Linux that allowed you to identify
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what the application was so I was forced to use that as I had tried to close all other
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applications and had identified that it was not anything that I personally intentionally
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started up on my own.
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So there's a program on Linux called X-Prop and it is called the X-Prop property display
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for X and the summary says the X-Prop utility is for displaying windows and font properties
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in a next server.
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One window or font is selected using the command line blah blah blah blah.
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So I ran that and when you run that application it will maybe just run it here now.
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You run it in the console and then your windows cursor turns to a crosser and when you click
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on the application it gives you icons etc etc etc.
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So you can use that and then the application will give you X information about it.
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So this gives me the window manager underscore name strings which was a willend to X recorder
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bridge.
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Well what's interesting about this window is that there's no window decoration whatsoever.
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It doesn't identify it in the it's not in the taskbar what it is it's not in the window
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bar and it has no window decoration, no window frame, no open or closed button.
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I was able to drag it to the second screen so it was out of my way but that's all the
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information I had.
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Any, a bit of I took the willend to X recording bridge which had me a lot less worried because
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I'm on Fedora 39 and as a result they're running will and I'm going to fold.
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So I assume this was something part of the operating system.
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It's a bit of doctor going and I found two articles worth of which are in the show notes.
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One is about the application itself on the GitHub it's part of the KDE desktop.
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It's an X willend video bridge and the about says it's on the KDE page and let me just
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check the license here assuming it's KDE I'm assuming that it is via it's covered on
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the BSD CC 0 GPL 2 etc so let's assume it's really broken source it says about by design
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X applications count access windows or screen contents for willend clients this is fine
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in principle budget breaks screen sharing tools like discord ms teams Skype etc and more.
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This tool allows us to share specific windows to X 11 clients but without the control of
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the user at all times.
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The X willend video bridge all will merge all or case should also start on login.
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It will run in the background next time you try to share a window a prompt will appear.
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The previous selected window now being available for sharing.
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The title will always be willend to X 11 bridge no matter what window is selected.
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The system icon provides finer control so it's possibly a KDE thing and the reason there's
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no windows decorations problem because I'm running LXQT but that allayed my issues and
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the other link will be an article to gaming on Linux which was the X willend video bridge
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created to improve Linux screen sharing and it more or less saves the same thing and
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gives you a link to their website so that's it that's what I learned today.
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Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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our syncs.net.
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On this advice status today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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