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Ain't this is good for security and privacy?
What the other person said. I didn't even think magic sysrq keys I was thinking like some steam like overlay lmao
A "security" that interrupts the user or prevents them from doing their work is bad, because it incentivizes the user to skip or disable it, and the use of a Linux system already can get most of the ways to do either of those via
${packagemanager} install. Thus it's more like security theatre.From what I gather, the wayland model of things is so ridiculous that it can't even provide for global hotkeys - which are, like, the guaranteed way to setup an interface the user can trust because it'll always mean that when the user users it. I doubt wayland would even be Magic SysRq keys-compatible.
Global hotkeys in Wayland: org.freedesktop.impl.portal.GlobalShortcut