SUMMARY When using plasma on wayland, screen casting feature of web services like Google Meet, but also Discord and so on, stops working. Only mouse cursor is visible, on a black screen. Sharing a window instead works. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a screen sharing service/app 2. Share entire screendddd OBSERVED RESULT Screen sharing does not work. Only a black area with the mouse cursor is visible EXPECTED RESULT Of course the entire screen to be shared just as normal SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 35 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.18.18-100.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Inspiron 5570 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Cannot reproduce; these work for me. Probably an issue with either the local PipeWire setup, or a bug in the PipeWire-based screencasting support code.
The Discord app doesn't support Wayland, it uses X11 instead of xdg portals for screen sharing
(In reply to Zamundaaa from comment #2) > The Discord app doesn't support Wayland, it uses X11 instead of xdg portals > for screen sharing based on your suggestions, I investigated the XDG portal affair and consequently: - found another Discord client having support for it (webcord) - enabled the "enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer" flag in chromium based browser in order to have screen sharing working. Other issues arose then, but that's for other reports. I'll leave this here in the hope it will guide other users looking for this issue on the web. Thank you