XScreenSaver, Wayland and locking.
Welp, I got crickets in answer to my question, "How do I find the wl_surface backing an Xwayland X11 Window?" and that does not bode well for XScreenSaver ever being able to lock your screen on Wayland. The only...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrj
Welp. All that lovely "AI" derailment aside, we now have an answer:
It is literally impossible for XScreenSaver to lock the screen under Wayland. Cannot be done. None of the extant, spottily-supported "protocols" will allow the screen to be locked while an Xwayland surface is visible.
Great job, everybody. Perfect, no notes.
That is a pretty tricky thing to support, I'd imagine, given the differences between Wayland and X11. Is there a specific reason you want to use a locker via XWayland instead of the various Wayland native screen lockers that exist?
@boo_ Show me how to make any of the extant native screen lockers run an arbitrary graphics-drawing program of my choice while the screen is locked.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
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