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Sway & Firefox-wl work pretty great on nixos

I've had a few issues (NixOS, sway). Mainly screen capture. XWayland apps can record windows, but not my whole screen. Wayland apps can record my whole screen but not individual windows. I also don't know how to get XWayland to match my sway display resolution as it is only half the resolution.

Also libinput via sway doesn't have a way to disable the touchscreen if I'm using a stylus as far as I'm aware.

I'm sure there are solutions to some of these, but given I already spend a significant amount of time fiddling with my NixOS configuration I'm already quite an outlier with regards to the amount of effort I am willing to spend and even I'm exhausted.

I need to know more about touchscreens and disabling touch but not stylus operations. Where can I find out more about this? What does it mean, physically? Where is the distinction handled?

The stylus I'm using operates independently from the capacitive touchscreen and is presented as a separate input device by libinput. The stylus needs external power and the input reports not just xy, but z coordinates. Physically I am not sure whats going on, and struggled to find anything authoritative on the subject.

Using Gnome and Firefox with Wayland on NixOS as well. No issues whatsover.

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