Bug 505555

Summary:	Chromium stopped capturing the screen on Plasma 6.4 Beta
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Demitrius Belai <demitriusbelai>
Component:	screencasting	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.90
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Demitrius Belai 2025-06-13 00:45:05 UTC

SUMMARY

After upgrading to Plasma 6.4 Beta, Chromium stopped capturing the screen.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Open https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html in Chromium 
2. Click on Screen capture
3. Select a Window or Screen

OBSERVED RESULT
The video is blank.

EXPECTED RESULT
View the captured screen.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.91
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Manufacturer: ASUS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Log output:
jun 12 21:15:26 game chromium[3017]: 'loop->recurse > 0' failed at ../pipewire/src/pipewire/thread-loop.c:425 pw_thread_loop_wait()
jun 12 21:15:26 game kded6[1271]: Service  ":1.88" unregistered
jun 12 21:15:26 game kded6[1271]: Registering ":1.93/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray

Reverting to Plasma 6.3 makes it work again. Firefox is not affected.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-06-16 16:18:35 UTC

This is working for me when I test it out with current git master.

Comment 2 David Redondo 2025-06-17 08:21:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 504384 ***