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Does screen sharing work on wayland now?

by selfhifive 4y ago

vetinari 4y ago
It does for a long time. However, applications that just grabbed X11 framebuffer won't work. They have to use respective APIs with user control ("portals") for that. Some do (Chrome, Firefox), some don't (MS Teams).
- Arnavion 4y ago
  If you're forced to use an application that only supports the X API, you can kludge it to work by VNCing to yourself with x11vnc and then screencasting the x11vnc window.
sheerun 4y ago
The best app for this task doesn't support it: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56 https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56
horsawlarway 4y ago
Yes, and has basically since early covid... So does RDP and VNC, if you're interested... Across most every variant (wlroots based - ex: sway, gnome - mutter, kde - plasma wayland)
- selfhifive 4y ago
  A friend of mine couldn't share his screen on meet or teams and I had to change it from Wayland to X11 to make it work. His was a Ubuntu 22.04 distro (GNOME) 4 month old install. Wonder why that happened.
vladharbuz 4y ago
It seems to work for a lot of people, but I still get constant crashes using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, despite trying multiple GPUs, extensive testing etc. I will probably dive into the code when I get some time.
amalgamated_inc 4y ago
I use it every day. I can share screen in Google Meet, Zoom, Slack Huddle, and many others. It doesn't work in Signal, though, because Signal is using an outdated version of Electron. Since each company sort of sticks with 1 tool for every employee, could be kind of a deal breaker if they pick a tool that can't screen share on Wayland.
sprash 4y ago
No! The Wayland protocol provides no mechanisms for screen sharing and it is not intended that it ever will. Screen sharing has to be done by external protocols that are either compositor specific or using a somewhat standardized dbus protocol that is completely separate from Wayland.

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Does screen sharing work on wayland now?

by selfhifive 4y ago

Does screen sharing work on wayland now?

vetinari 4y ago
It does for a long time. However, applications that just grabbed X11 framebuffer won't work. They have to use respective APIs with user control ("portals") for that. Some do (Chrome, Firefox), some don't (MS Teams).
- Arnavion 4y ago
  If you're forced to use an application that only supports the X API, you can kludge it to work by VNCing to yourself with x11vnc and then screencasting the x11vnc window.
sheerun 4y ago
The best app for this task doesn't support it: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56 https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56
horsawlarway 4y ago
Yes, and has basically since early covid... So does RDP and VNC, if you're interested... Across most every variant (wlroots based - ex: sway, gnome - mutter, kde - plasma wayland)
- selfhifive 4y ago
  A friend of mine couldn't share his screen on meet or teams and I had to change it from Wayland to X11 to make it work. His was a Ubuntu 22.04 distro (GNOME) 4 month old install. Wonder why that happened.
vladharbuz 4y ago
It seems to work for a lot of people, but I still get constant crashes using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, despite trying multiple GPUs, extensive testing etc. I will probably dive into the code when I get some time.
amalgamated_inc 4y ago
I use it every day. I can share screen in Google Meet, Zoom, Slack Huddle, and many others. It doesn't work in Signal, though, because Signal is using an outdated version of Electron. Since each company sort of sticks with 1 tool for every employee, could be kind of a deal breaker if they pick a tool that can't screen share on Wayland.
sprash 4y ago
No! The Wayland protocol provides no mechanisms for screen sharing and it is not intended that it ever will. Screen sharing has to be done by external protocols that are either compositor specific or using a somewhat standardized dbus protocol that is completely separate from Wayland.