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So, is it correct to say Wayland, the process drawing everything on the screen by writing to a gpu framebuffer, is just another linux process with escalated privilege?



Wayland client and server share video memory buffers through libdrm GBM API (Mesa) and DRM was designed so that Wayland can use wl_drm protocol without escalated privileges.




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