Linux

48287 readers

637 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

nooter692@lemmy.ml

MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

cyclohexane@lemmy.ml

d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz

Is it possible to isolate which GUI programs are seem by a screensharing program in xorg or wayland ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by shadowintheday2@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Think Zoom, Teams, google meet etc

When sharing the screen, it can see everything the user sees. Would it be possible to isolate what it sees only to GUI applications ran by the same user? If I run these as an unprivileged user via xhost, they don't really work well. Sandboxing via bubblewrap requires knowledge beyond my current skills and I'm not sure if it would work.

Has anyone

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] shadowintheday2@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation

So wayland fixes most of these. Is it possible to run GUI programs as another user just like in X with xhost though ? I'm asking not only from a security point, but as a practical one since I need to run the same program under different namespaces/users

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I can't way I have tried. But Wayland uses a socket, so many you can set file permissions to let other users access it?

I don't know what your exact use case is but if you just want programs to have different "profiles" you can probably do something like setting $HOME to point somewhere else or otherwise configure their data directory.