Some might not see how much work is/was to maintain xorg server

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Can also be used in non-KDE X11 desktop environments. Which doesn't really explicitly say much, and in fact the only tool I could find that claimed to be able to support everything was ksnip, which seems to work fine with wlroots but beyond that <a href="https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip#known-issues">https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip#known-issues</a> outlines the situation well enough; KDE is at least only temporarily broken, but GNOME isn't going to improve because GNOME did that on purpose. Now, that readme says you can use xdg-desktop-portal, but I have a GNOME+Wayland machine on hand, and I couldn't get it to actually work. I <i>think</i> what's supposed to happen is that every time I do a screenshot it prompts for permission, which I wanted to verify so I could complain that that was totally unreasonable, but what actually happens is that it just fails, which is... Not better. Oh, and while searching for solutions to that I found flameshot, but that just refuses to even run. So... Maybe someday the portal solution will work; in the meantime, I feel comfortable describing the situation as Wayland not having a uniform <i>working</i> way of taking screenshots. [0] In particular, so we can avoid the situation from X11 where a load of drawing primitives are baked in that nobody has any use for anymore.

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