It's very unfortunate in this day and age of remote working that screen sharing is so broken on a modern Linux desktop. Back to X11 for me as well.
For anyone else on KDE making the switch, keep in mind the workaround in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385135. On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:56 PM Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > You may have heard me mention on this list that this is a barrier for me > to switch to Wayland. Working from home, as so many of us are, I need to > give presentations. I prefer not to share my screen, but share a window. > Using chrome, for example, I could share a screen, a window, or a tab. > Problem is, when run on Wayland, when I try to share a window only some > windows are shown as choices. Apparently these are the Wayland native > windows. In my testing, none of the pdf viewers I've tried fall into this > category and are given as choices to share a window. To me this is a > showstopper, and I have to believe a lot of others have similar issues. > For now I haven't found any alternative except stay on X11. > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:07 PM Raman Gupta <rocketra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm finally switching over to Wayland as my daily driver. >> >> However, I'm still finding big problems with screen sharing in general. >> I'm on KDE/Plasma. >> >> Many apps that are supposed to support screen sharing on Wayland -- >> Electron-based apps, Chromium, OBS, proprietary apps like Zoom etc. either >> completely don't work, or work but only partially. For example, Chrome can >> share X11 windows but not Wayland windows, and cannot share screens at all >> (the option is available, but the screens are just black). OBS doesn't work >> with Pipewire+Wireplumber either, though it does seem to be able to capture >> windows that are running under XWayland. >> >> Some very nice and useful apps e.g. Pop simply output: "we don't support >> Wayland, switch to X11". >> >> As long as it is up to each app to develop their own solutions for >> Wayland this situation is likely to only change in a decade or so, if even >> then. Are there any tech initiatives on the go -- maybe at the compositor >> level? -- to have Wayland screen sharing work essentially transparently to >> apps that have already got screen sharing working for X11? I'm fine with a >> global setting that says "I don't care about screen sharing security" -- >> that's essentially what I'm doing by changing my desktop back to X11 anyway. >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >> > > > -- > *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it* > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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