SUMMARY Electron apps -- in particular skype and MS Teams -- cannot see the webcam or microphone. This occurs under an x11 session, but not under a Wayland session. This behaviour does not occur under an xfce session, even when kwin_x11 (--replace) is used. Native apps don not seem affected I have tried to disable the media-player applet, but this didn't change the result. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Launch a session 2. Launch skype/teams 3. No webcam/mic OBSERVED RESULT No webcam or mic. EXPECTED RESULT Should be webcam/mic SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: opensuse unstable KDE RPMs (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71 Qt Version: 5.15 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Does the microphone appear visible in the Audio Volume system tray applet?
I just tested again, after spending about a week on a wayland session because of this issue, and it looks like it's working again. I don't know what was the problem.
Thanks.
I have found the cause for the bug, and thought it would be useful info to pass on. It's an issue with the X security: with xhost+, the apps work as expected.
That doesn't sound like there's anything wrong our side. Are you running apps as different users? Please reopen if there's anything to indicate there is an issue with our software.
I don't know there's a bug with kwin, but the defaults seem different than under icewm, for example, where xhost+ is not necessary. It's not necessarily a bug, but I thought you should know.