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Just out of curiosity, how does screenshare work for you? I've been trying setting it up for work (slack/teams), but to this day it just doesn't work. Using deb

by arpa 6y ago

Just out of curiosity, how does screenshare work for you? I've been trying setting it up for work (slack/teams), but to this day it just doesn't work. Using debian sid, so pretty up-to date packages tbh. I just start new xorg session for screenshare, which, frankly, sucks.

kriive 6y ago
Well, it works on FF and certain builds of chromium (those built with ENABLE_PIPEWIRE flag on). I am using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and it works quite good. I was able to present my desktop to others without significant hiccups. Once Electron enables Ozone (and builds with PIPEWIRE on) we will be able to use screen sharing also on teams and other electron-packaged apps. This obviously works for my workflow and I understand it won't work for everyone. I don't know about Zoom, but I heard (and thus not entirely sure) it works only on specific distros with some specific GNOME versions. EDIT. I misread Slack for Zoom.
horsawlarway 6y ago
Yup, this is sort of here with pipewire at this point, but it hasn't propagated through to the electron apps. Slack is still a pain point for me as well, but mainly because Slack continues to demand that I install the desktop app for calls/screen sharing. Zoom's desktop app also doesn't work, but I can use zoom-redirector and have the calls immediately open in my browser (you can get the same thing without the extension, but it requires you pretend that you can't install their desktop app and several button presses for every meeting). My guess is that we're about 12 months away from having it work by default in most places.
maxhille 6y ago
The Electron apps are not there yet. I too have to use Slack ATM and my workaround is too have Pipewire working with Browser (Chromium and Firefox in my case) and use Slack in the Browser when I need to share my screen. If the target you want to share is a X window, you won't even need Pipewire since WebRTC will just work without it.

by arpa 6y ago

kriive 6y ago

Well, it works on FF and certain builds of chromium (those built with ENABLE_PIPEWIRE flag on). I am using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and it works quite good. I was able to present my desktop to others without significant hiccups. Once Electron enables Ozone (and builds with PIPEWIRE on) we will be able to use screen sharing also on teams and other electron-packaged apps. This obviously works for my workflow and I understand it won't work for everyone. I don't know about Zoom, but I heard (and thus not entirely sure) it works only on specific distros with some specific GNOME versions. EDIT. I misread Slack for Zoom.

horsawlarway 6y ago

Yup, this is sort of here with pipewire at this point, but it hasn't propagated through to the electron apps. Slack is still a pain point for me as well, but mainly because Slack continues to demand that I install the desktop app for calls/screen sharing. Zoom's desktop app also doesn't work, but I can use zoom-redirector and have the calls immediately open in my browser (you can get the same thing without the extension, but it requires you pretend that you can't install their desktop app and several button presses for every meeting). My guess is that we're about 12 months away from having it work by default in most places.

maxhille 6y ago

The Electron apps are not there yet. I too have to use Slack ATM and my workaround is too have Pipewire working with Browser (Chromium and Firefox in my case) and use Slack in the Browser when I need to share my screen. If the target you want to share is a X window, you won't even need Pipewire since WebRTC will just work without it.