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Screen sharing fails on Wayland #1750

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GalouFR opened this issue Jun 27, 2024 · 3 comments
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Screen sharing fails on Wayland #1750

GalouFR opened this issue Jun 27, 2024 · 3 comments
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A-Electron A-VoIP O-Occasional Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely S-Major Severely degrades major functionality or product features, with no satisfactory workaround T-Defect Z-Platform-Specific Z-Upstream

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@GalouFR
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GalouFR commented Jun 27, 2024

Steps to reproduce

When I am in a video conference and I want to share my screen this does not work, the dialog box which allows you to choose between the whole screen and a window appears but it is empty and the share button at the bottom right is grayed out when I use Wayland on the other hand it works correctly with x11 the dialog box shows my screen correctly and I can share it.

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What did you expect?

I wish to have a fix or solution to make it work natively with the default ubuntu configuration (wayland)

What happened instead?

The share button is grayed out and it is impossible to select the screen or application to share because it does not appear.

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Application version

Version de Element : 1.11.69, Version crypto : Rust SDK 0.7.0, Vodozemac 0.6.0

How did you install the app?

https://element.io/download

Homeserver

non-public server, synapse server on matrix i think

Will you send logs?

No

@dosubot dosubot bot added A-VoIP O-Occasional Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely S-Major Severely degrades major functionality or product features, with no satisfactory workaround labels Jun 27, 2024
@dbkr dbkr changed the title Screen sharing not working on Ubuntu 22.04 lts with Wayland but works with x11 Screen sharing fails on Wayland Jul 3, 2024
@frankenstein91
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just to make sure... do you have an XDG Desktop Portal installed for your desktop env?
They are needed for securely accessing resources from outside an application sandbox.

@GalouFR
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GalouFR commented Jul 8, 2024

just to make sure... do you have an XDG Desktop Portal installed for your desktop env? They are needed for securely accessing resources from outside an application sandbox.

just to make sure... Where can i see it's needed on the download page ?
https://element.io/download#linux

and yes i have:
XDG Desktop Portal v1.14.4-1ubuntu2~22.04.1

@frankenstein91
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Hi @GalouFR
it is not a requirement of the chat client... It is more of a requirement imposed by Wayland and pipewire.

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