You may not have seen the original post from months ago all this refers to, it's about the screen sharing feature specifically, not about the hangouts in general.
Cheers, Jarosław Rzeszótko 2014-02-27 18:14 GMT+01:00 Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk>: > Quoth Jarosław Rzeszótko: >> Lots of titling WMs seem to have this issue, in Xmonad it's the same >> for example, I didn't manage to track it down despite debugging >> attempts, I know too little about X or WMs. For what it's worth, It >> works with the awesome WM, and with i3 which I use now - pity, because >> I liked dwm much more in general, but I need the hangouts for work. > > I had no problems when I used hangouts a few months ago, with chrome > and googletalk-plugin, with dwm-6.0, in Debian Wheezy. It all Just > Worked. >