• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    1 year ago

    It has many neat little features that will never get implemented into Wayland for security reason (e.g. want to play a video on a button in your spreadsheet app using mpv?). It was fun while it lasted, but the next generation will never be able to experience it.

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      1 year ago

      (e.g. want to play a video on a button in your spreadsheet app using mpv?

      You can definitely do that as wayland supports sub-compositors. You probably shouldn’t, though.

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        1 year ago

        How do you that in wayland? I’m very interested with crazy and useless stuff like this. On X11, you can pass a window ID to mpv with --wid, it’ll attach the player to that window, even if that window is actually a button in a spreadsheet app.

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          You implement the wayland server interface, launch mpv with the right environment to connect to you, then you take the buffer mpv gives you and compose it onto your window.