[winswitch] is xpra secure?

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Sun Sep 8 16:51:52 BST 2013


On 08/09/13 22:34, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> writes:
>> Xpra only forwards the pixels, mouse and keyboard events are only
>> forwarded whilst the window is in focus or directly under the mouse, the
>> client applications do not have access to your local display at all.
>> They are not even aware that it exists.
> It also forwards freedesktop.org notifications.
It also forwards bell events, sound, cursors and many other things from
applications to the client.
But these are all irrelevant in the context of the OP's question: none
of this allows any application access to the client's display.
The only data that travels from the client to the application is what I
listed above.

Antoine



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