11mo ago

Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg?

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An easy way to share my screen
- Uhm, xdg-desktop-portal? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal
- How?? There are so many tools for that now, I can even do it in teams
  
  My work uses slack. The screenshare doesn't work with Wayland. Steam link/remote play doesn't work with a Wayland host (at least it hasn't every time i have tried it). For my gaming pc i only switch to X when i want to use the steam link and use Wayland the other 99.99% of the time because in general it is better. For work i exclusively run X. I started with Wayland, but then there were several occasions where i had to logout then login again switching to X just so i could share my screen which was a massive pain. I love Wayland, but i can totally understand people not wanting to switch until the tools they are used to (or are required to use) work properly under Wayland.
  
  XWaylandVideoBridge should work for slack.
- Good news: Discord just updated their Electron version.
  
  Wait what, really? Has hell actually frozen over now?!
- OBS?
  
  I couldn't get OBS working on OpenSuse with Wayland. Works on x11.
  
  Huh, works flawlessly for me on NixOS. Have you made sure that you're using Pipewire and have the correct xdg-desktop-portal?
  
  This is great an all but the way to "get it working" in X is just install it and it works.
  
  Mine works okay on Debian 12 plasma. It was a little work to get it to not require root. The flat pack worked out of the box but then plugins became an issue so I went back and screwed with permissions till I got it working.

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