SUMMARY The description of the "Share virtual screen" button for sharing a virtual output says "Creates a screen inside a window, then share", however while the new output is created (I can see it in the pager widget in my panel) I don't think I have any way to see what is happening there except watching my own screen share. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click the screen share button somewhere you want to share your screen 2. Click the "Share virtual screen" button OBSERVED RESULT A new virtual output is created and windows could be moved there. There is no way to see what is happening on that output without looking at your own (possibly delayed) screen share. EXPECTED RESULT The description in the portal suggests a window should be created in which you can see the contents of the virtual output and I guess also interact with the contents on that output. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2
Yes I think we could have some indicator or notification about where the new screen is. For example notification on the adjacent display going "the virtual screen is placed on the right of this display"
(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #1) > Yes I think we could have some indicator or notification about where the new > screen is. For example notification on the adjacent display going "the > virtual screen is placed on the right of this display" While this is also a good point this is not what my report is about. I know where the virtual desktop is located (to the right of my physical ones). My report is about the text in the share portal indicating that there should be a window somewhere in which I can see/interact with the newly created virtual output.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/564
Git commit 81e4413a0869c01c16e3c9eb7b33cd8e08efd45d by David Redondo. Committed on 24/05/2026 at 06:10. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. screencast: Fix virtual output description It doesn't create a new window. M +1 -1 src/outputsmodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/commit/81e4413a0869c01c16e3c9eb7b33cd8e08efd45d
Git commit 24018696cd0e12de009bbbf6e891d15bd9692e0d by David Redondo. Committed on 24/05/2026 at 06:19. Pushed by davidre into branch 'Plasma/6.7'. screencast: Fix virtual output description It doesn't create a new window. (cherry picked from commit 81e4413a0869c01c16e3c9eb7b33cd8e08efd45d) Co-authored-by: David Redondo <kde@david-redondo.de> M +1 -1 src/outputsmodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/commit/24018696cd0e12de009bbbf6e891d15bd9692e0d