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		dralley on Oct 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? Those standards need to exist, but those standards do not need to exist as part of the display protocol. People make this mistake over and over and over. Nothing prevents the compositor writers from deciding on a common API for screenshots and similar things (and there has been movement in this direction)

Avamander on Oct 25, 2020 [–]

> Those standards need to exist, but those standards do not need to exist as part of the display protocol.

They do. It's pointless fragmentation otherwise.

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