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Fixing Wayland: Xwayland screen casting

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 22, 2023

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This blog introduces a new tool to make it easy to stream wayland windows and screens to existing applications running under Xwayland that don't have native pipewire support in an easy-to-use manner than retains full user control throughout.

On my Plasma wayland session right now if I use the screen share function in Discord, I'm presented with the following.

It doesn't work

I have no windows listed, even though I clearly have windows open. The full screen shares are blank. The same will be true in MS Teams, Slack, Zoom as well as any other Xwayland apps that involve screencasts.

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