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Zoom update triggers privacy risk by slurping Linux clipboards
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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Thank you. This is the summary I needed.
And this is exactly why I put up with the functionality regressions of Wayland over X11 for the first few years.
It’s just a better compositor. X is roughly half a million bandaids in a 30 year old trench coat.
I understood that all X11 apps running under Wayland are running inside the same environment, or is that wrong?
In other words, all X11 clipboards are shared.
I'm also not sure about clipboard isolation, since I'd have thought that copy/paste between Wayland and X11 would be expected.
The Wayland spec doesn't allow for clients to arbitrarily get clipboard data under typical conditions. Since most applications these days are running under Wayland, it should be that copying to the clipboard isn't exposed to X11 clients most of the time (only when copying from or pasting into XWayland).